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Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Water Supply Pipe At

HPD order 578 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Nov 8, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 7,922 violations under order 578, "Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Water Supply Pipe At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 1,527 are open right now, 1,489 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,527
Open past deadline
1,489
Closed
6,395
All time
7,922
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,913

How order 578 is actually enforced

  • 69 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 29 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 44 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 938 notices (11.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 7,922 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 1,915 notices (24.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-578 violations by borough

BROOKLYN578
MANHATTAN401
BRONX397
QUEENS133
STATEN ISLAND18

The law behind this order

Order 578is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, "Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2026 Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures · Browse open § 27-2026 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.