Lead Paint Abatement · five boroughs
A lead-paint order gives the owner 21 days. Only an EPA-licensed firm can close it.
HPD writes lead-based paint hazards as Class C — immediately hazardous — with 21 days from the date of service to correct. The work has to be performed by an EPA-licensed firm using lead-safe work practices, then certified with a lab-tested clearance dust sample. HPD groups window guard violations under the same child-safety enforcement track, and both carry the same 21-day Class C clock. We watch every lead-paint and window guard order across the five boroughs and name the managing agent registered with HPD.
Every violation in New York has a deadline, a penalty, and somebody who has to hire you.
Lead Paint Abatement leads, $199 a month.
7 days free on Alert — three digests. Card on file, first charge on day 8. No contract, cancel any time. That works out to about $1 per ranked lead-paint lead with the owner or managing agent already named on it.
One real record, start to finish
What a lead-paint lead actually looks like
Public record, pulled from the feed, scored, and handed over with the contact resolved. Every fact below is real and free to anyone who knows where to look. The agent's name and the play are what you are paying for, so they stay in the digest.
6■■ West 192 Street Manhattan
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE — correct the lead-based paint hazard on the door frame in the bathroom, tested positive for lead content, Apt 41
The Play
There is one requirement on this order that disqualifies most contractors before they even call, and it is not the licensing you would expect. Subscribers get the play.
The house number is masked here because a full address is a free route to the name. Subscribers get it unmasked. Every lead carries a play like this — it is the difference between a row of data and knowing what to say when they pick up.
Why this is not a lead list
Marketplace leads sell intent. A violation is an obligation with a date on it.
A marketplace lead-paint lead is a landlord who searched because a tenant complained once. An HPD Class C lead order is a legal 21-day clock, an EPA-licensed-firm requirement, and an inspector who is required to come back.
Marketplaces cannot tell you whether the order is lead-based paint or a window guard violation, and the two need entirely different scopes — quoting the wrong one on the call is how you lose it before you start.
If the correction date passes, HPD is required to attempt the repair itself and bill the owner through the Department of Finance. A landlord holding an overdue lead order is not comparing quotes anymore — they are trying to avoid a city bill with markup on it.
How it works
Four steps, every night, before you are awake.
We read the city, nightly
Fourteen datasets — DOB, ECB, HPD, FISP — refreshed every night. See every one on the data page.
We keep the ones with a deadline
Most of what the city publishes is paperwork. We keep records that carry a correction date, a filing date or an unpaid balance — something that forces a decision.
We name the human
Owner of record, or the managing agent registered with HPD where one is on file, with a confidence band on the resolution so you know how hard the number was to find.
It is in your inbox before you open the truck
Ranked, filtered to your trade and boroughs, with The Play on each one. 6:00am every weekday, on every plan.
Against the alternatives
What lead-paint contractors use now, and what it costs them.
| BuildDocket | Shared lead marketplaces | Pulling NYC Open Data yourself | Referrals and word of mouth | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What triggers the lead | An open violation with a correction deadline | Somebody filled in a form | Whatever you remembered to query | Chance |
| Is there a deadline on it | Yes, and it is on the record | No | Only if you built the logic | No |
| Contact resolved | Owner or HPD-registered agent, with a confidence band | The form filler | You do the reverse lookups | Already known |
| How many others got it | Capped per borough | As many as paid | Unknown | One |
| Told you what to say | The Play, on every lead | No | No | N/A |
| Monthly cost | $199, 7 days free | Per-lead, and rising | Your time, nightly | Nothing, and unpredictable |
We are a commercial general contractor that got tired of buying leads from people who had never run a job. That is the whole origin story.
Do not take the numbers on trust.
Every figure on this page is read live from the same database that builds the digest. The data page lists all fourteen city datasets, the record counts, when each was last refreshed, and the open count for every division we sell.
Questions
Lead-paint contractors ask these first.
Why does a lead order only get 21 days?
HPD treats Lead-Based Paint, Window Guards, Mold, and Mice/Cockroaches and Rats as the same immediately-hazardous Class C category, all with 21 days from the date of service to correct.
Do you include window guard violations, or only lead paint?
Both. HPD enforces them on the same child-safety track and the same 21-day clock, so this division carries both order types.
Does any contractor qualify to close these?
No. Correction has to be done by an EPA-licensed firm using lead-safe work practices and certified with lab-tested clearance dust samples. That requirement is the actual gate — most of the calls this list generates never get that far.
What does it cost, and is there a contract?
$199 a month for one trade in one borough, and the first 7 days are free. Your card goes on file when you start and is first charged on day 8 -- cancel before then and you are never charged. No contract, cancel any time. Every trade-and-borough combination is the same $199, so two trades across two boroughs is four of them, $796. There is no bigger plan and no volume discount. A borough with no filings in your division is not offered at all, so there is no way to be charged for coverage that does not exist. If you want to be the only contractor sent this trade in a borough, you can buy every seat on it at $199 a seat -- on a thin combination that is a small number; ask us how many it holds.
How many other contractors get the same lead?
Capped per trade and borough rather than sold to whoever turns up. The point of a cap is that the lead is still worth calling when you get it.
Where does the data come from?
NYC Open Data — DOB, ECB, HPD and the FISP filings — plus the registration and tax roll records used to resolve the contact. It is public record. The work is in filtering it, ranking it and naming the human, and that is what you are paying for.
See tomorrow's lead-paint list before you pay for it.
Start the 7 days and you get real lead-paint digests — your trade, your boroughs, owners and managing agents already named — Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Read them, then decide.
Your card goes on file today and is first charged on day 8, so the list keeps arriving on its own. Cancel any time inside the 7 days and you are never charged — one click, no questions.
Your division is already set to lead-paint — change it if that is not your work. Currently New York City only.
Ready now? Alert is $199 a month and the first 7 days are free. Your card goes on file when you start and is first charged on day 8 — cancel before then and you are never charged. No contract.