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Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Faucets At Bathtub In

HPD order 579 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written May 17, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 140,485 violations under order 579, "Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Faucets At Bathtub In", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 24,503 are open right now, 23,532 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
24,503
Open past deadline
23,532
Closed
115,982
All time
140,485
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,040

How order 579 is actually enforced

  • 1,486 notices (1.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 590 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 96 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 749 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 9,414 notices (6.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 40,957 notices (29.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-579 violations by borough

BROOKLYN9,236
BRONX7,012
MANHATTAN5,386
QUEENS2,589
STATEN ISLAND280

The law behind this order

Order 579is 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.