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Properly Secure The Loose Wash Basin In The Bathroom

HPD order 509 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Jun 29, 1973 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 95,540 violations under order 509, "Properly Secure The Loose Wash Basin In The Bathroom", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 19,919 are open right now, 19,308 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
19,919
Open past deadline
19,308
Closed
75,621
All time
95,540
Class C (immediately hazardous)
7,247

How order 509 is actually enforced

  • 1,692 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 403 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 70 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 620 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 13,470 notices (14.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 23,078 notices (24.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-509 violations by borough

BROOKLYN9,232
MANHATTAN4,246
BRONX3,981
QUEENS2,163
STATEN ISLAND297

The law behind this order

Order 509is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.