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Remove All Obstructions From Water Closet .. In The

HPD order 595 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Feb 24, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 4,872 violations under order 595, "Remove All Obstructions From Water Closet .. In The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 650 are open right now, 646 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
650
Open past deadline
646
Closed
4,222
All time
4,872
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,872

How order 595 is actually enforced

  • 18 notices (0.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 17 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 26 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 321 notices (6.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 4,872 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.
  • 1,046 notices (21.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-595 violations by borough

BROOKLYN233
BRONX207
MANHATTAN133
QUEENS71
STATEN ISLAND6

The law behind this order

Order 595is 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.