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Reset, So As To Secure A Proper And Tight

HPD order 591 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Sep 4, 1984 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 17,094 violations under order 591, "Reset, So As To Secure A Proper And Tight", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 2,932 are open right now, 2,590 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,932
Open past deadline
2,590
Closed
14,162
All time
17,094
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 591 is actually enforced

  • 220 notices (1.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 71 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 13 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 43 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,075 notices (6.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 5,408 notices (31.6%) were dismissed.

Open order-591 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,126
BRONX875
MANHATTAN554
QUEENS348
STATEN ISLAND29

The law behind this order

Order 591is 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.