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Replace The Broken Or Defective Wash Basin In The

HPD order 596 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Jan 30, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 28,172 violations under order 596, "Replace The Broken Or Defective Wash Basin In The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 4,510 are open right now, 4,393 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,510
Open past deadline
4,393
Closed
23,662
All time
28,172
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,063

How order 596 is actually enforced

  • 439 notices (1.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 100 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 17 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 158 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,254 notices (4.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 28,172 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.
  • 7,378 notices (26.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-596 violations by borough

BRONX1,504
BROOKLYN1,400
MANHATTAN1,204
QUEENS375
STATEN ISLAND27

The law behind this order

Order 596is 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.