Lead paint violations in Manhattan.
1.3% of Manhattan’s lead paint violations are marked Not Complied With, against 0.9% citywide.
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11,113 lead paint violations cited in Manhattan over the last three years.
What this means
Lead paint violations in homes where a child may live are among the most serious violations HPD writes. A certified firm has to do the abatement, and the owner then certifies the correction with HPD.
If you own the building. Time does not clear an HPD lead paint violation. It stays open until a certification is filed and accepted or HPD closes it, and a sale, a refinance or a permit review reads the building’s history. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Manhattan for a living. Manhattan carries 2,450 Class C lead paint violations more than a year old with nothing filed against them.
Our current feed holds 594 Manhattan case files across all categories, and 317 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 18. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C lead paint violations here.
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If you rent here. An inspector stood in the building and wrote these up. What these numbers cannot tell you is whether the repair happened, only whether a certification was filed. What each status means.
Manhattan, by category: Heat and hot water, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD lead paint violation gets issued
Most of these violations start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if the inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From then on anyone can look it up on HPD Online by address, and it stays open until HPD accepts a correction or closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.
When Manhattan lead paint violations are cited, by month
Lead paint violations HPD has cited in Manhattan, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. June has the most, 1,102. July has the fewest, 718.
Lead paint violations by class: A, B and C
HPD sorts every lead paint violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Manhattan, HPD has issued 10,569 Class C lead paint violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 1,016 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
Class C is 91.2% of the 11,585 lead paint violations recorded in Manhattan.
How often Manhattan lead paint violations get certified corrected
The certification rate on Manhattan’s Class C lead paint violations is 19.8%: 2,090 filings against 10,569 violations issued. Half of those filings came within 37 days of the inspection and nine in ten within 55. 2,450 violations, 23.2%, are more than a year old with nothing filed.
Once a certify-by date passes unanswered, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. In Manhattan that is 1.3% of lead paint violations.
Lead paint takes longer to certify than any of the other five categories, and the violations that name abatement take roughly twice as long again. Abatement and certification, measured.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
HPD reads the certification before anything closes. Insufficient paperwork comes back as Defect Letter Issued and has to be filed again. A reinspection that finds the cited condition still in place comes back as Invalid Certification, the worse of the two. A filing made inside the certify-by date shows NOV Certified On Time, and one made outside it NOV Certified Late. The glossary covers each status.
Manhattan against the rest of New York City
Against a citywide total of 77,191 lead paint violations, Manhattan accounts for 11,585, or 15.0%. The five boroughs compare like this.
| Borough | Lead paint violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 31,952 |
| Brooklyn | 24,092 |
| Manhattan | 11,585 |
| Queens | 8,976 |
| Staten Island | 586 |
Which Manhattan streets carry the most open lead paint violations
Open lead paint violations in Manhattan are not spread evenly. Counted by street, the heaviest run like this.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Broadway | 406 |
| St Nicholas Avenue | 286 |
| Riverside Drive | 132 |
| Sherman Avenue | 116 |
| Ft Washington Avenue | 106 |
| Audubon Avenue | 104 |
| Adam C Powell Boulevard | 101 |
| Seaman Avenue | 97 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Manhattan buildings with open lead paint violations
Each of these Manhattan buildings has its own page. They are 12 of the 475 with open lead paint violations, picked again each week and listed by street, not by count. Each count covers lead paint violations only, counted on September 27, 2026.
- 3910 Broadway, Manhattan 33 open Class C lead paint violations
- 476 Central Park West, Manhattan 5 open Class C lead paint violations
- 18 East 116 Street, Manhattan 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 118 Ft Washington Avenue, Manhattan 5 open Class C lead paint violations
- 860 Riverside Drive, Manhattan 9 open Class C lead paint violations
- 35 Vermilyea Avenue, Manhattan 10 open Class C lead paint violations
- 88 Wadsworth Avenue, Manhattan 12 open Class C lead paint violations
- 10 West 135 Street, Manhattan 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 114 West 143 Street, Manhattan 7 open Class C lead paint violations
- 619 West 163 Street, Manhattan 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 580 West 176 Street, Manhattan 5 open Class C lead paint violations
- 839 West End Avenue, Manhattan 10 open Class C lead paint violations
Every HPD status on Manhattan lead paint violations
HPD gives every violation a status that says where the case stands. Here is each one on Manhattan’s lead paint violations, heaviest first, with the glossary behind every name.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Manhattan lead paint violations, read from our copy of HPD's Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (NYC Open Data, wvxf-dwi5). Figures through September 27, 2026, read on September 29, 2026. https://violationscout.com/nyc/manhattan-lead-paint
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches lead paint in Manhattan; the three-year count at the top is read from the city's open-data API when the page is built. Source: NYC Open Data. How every figure here is counted: /methodology.
The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 11,585 lead paint violations in Manhattan. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.