Bronx County
Mold Removal Across the Bronx
Count the apartments in your building and you already know most of what happens next. Three or more puts the mold on the owner by statute, ten or more brings in two separately licensed firms and a city filing, and the fifth of the borough living in one and two unit houses sits outside both and decides alone.
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Which Bronx rule reaches you depends on the unit count
Nothing in the Bronx goes through a town hall. The same three city agencies handle every address: HPD writes and reinspects the mold violation, DEP takes the Local Law 61 filings on buildings of ten or more units, and the Department of Buildings takes the plumbing or structural work behind the leak. Patching and repainting afterwards is usually an ordinary repair that needs no Buildings permit, but the plumbing fix that actually stops the water is not, and that is the line most quotes are drawn on the wrong side of. The step that sets your schedule is the assessment, not the crew: the state register showed 28 active mold assessment licenses at Bronx addresses against 36 remediation licenses, so the independent half is the scarcer half and is booked first. And if you rent, none of this is yours to arrange or pay for. In a building of three apartments or more the mold is the owner's statutory duty and the route is 311.
Areas within Bronx: Fordham, Mott Haven, Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Throgs Neck, Pelham Bay, Morris Park, Co-op City
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What we arrange across the Bronx
Mold Inspection and Assessment
Find out what is growing, how far it reaches and what water is feeding it, in writing, before anyone quotes a dollar to remove it.
Mold Assessment in Bronx →Mold Remediation and Removal
Get the mold and the material it is living in out of the building, to a plan somebody independent wrote, with the work checked afterwards by that same independent party.
Mold Remediation in Bronx →Water Damage Drying and Dry Out
Get the building dry inside the window where wet material is still just wet material, before a water problem turns into a licensed mold project.
Water Damage Drying in Bronx →Mold Violation Response for Building Owners
Work out exactly what a dated mold violation, or a tenant complaint you have not answered yet, requires you to do, in what order, and who is allowed to do it.
Violation Response in Bronx →What the borough's housing and violation record shows
71.5 percent of Bronx County housing units are in buildings of five or more units and 35.7 percent are in buildings of 50 or more units, while 20.4 percent are in one or two unit buildings.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, accessed 2026-09-16
79.9 percent of occupied housing units in Bronx County are renter occupied, against 67.2 percent citywide and 34.8 percent nationally.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, accessed 2026-09-16
New York City housing inspectors recorded 20,424 mold violations in the Bronx in calendar year 2024, out of 46,780 citywide. Brooklyn recorded 13,641, Manhattan 6,426, Queens 5,244 and Staten Island 1,045.
Source: New York City Open Data, Housing Preservation and Development Housing Maintenance Code Violations, accessed 2026-09-16
Of the 104 buildings selected citywide for HPD's 2025 Underlying Conditions round, 57 are in the Bronx, holding 1,603 of the 2,952 units involved and 764 of the 1,367 qualifying mold and leak violations, and 34 of the 61 orders issued went to Bronx buildings.
Source: New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, FY25 Indoor Allergen Hazard Report, accessed 2026-09-16
The New York State mold contractor license register showed 36 active mold remediation contractor licenses and 28 active mold assessment contractor licenses at addresses in Bronx ZIP codes on 16 September 2026, out of 937 and 802 respectively across the whole state.
Source: New York State Department of Labor, Mold Contractor Licenses open dataset, accessed 2026-09-16
In Bronx County the median year of construction is 1955, 33.3 percent of the 559,415 housing units were built in 1939 or earlier and 77.9 percent before 1980, against a national median of 1980 and a national pre-1940 share of 11.7 percent.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, accessed 2026-09-16
New York City Administrative Code section 24-154, added by Local Law 61 of 2018, defines a covered building as one containing ten or more dwelling units or sitting on a zoning lot with 25,000 or more square feet of non-residential floor area, and a covered person as the owner, the managing agent or an employee of either. For a project, meaning mold work on an area greater than ten square feet, no covered person may perform the assessment, abatement or remediation, and the work must be done by a person licensed under Article 32 of the state Labor Law.
Source: The City of New York, Local Law 61 of 2018, accessed 2026-09-16
Tell us what you can see in the Bronx
We will say who is allowed to do the work, and in what order.