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Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At

HPD order 598 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Jul 23, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 53,151 violations under order 598, "Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 8,812 are open right now, 8,534 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
8,812
Open past deadline
8,534
Closed
44,339
All time
53,151
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,032

How order 598 is actually enforced

  • 442 notices (0.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 194 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 18 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 280 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,571 notices (4.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 13,247 notices (24.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-598 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,475
BRONX2,516
MANHATTAN1,696
QUEENS1,051
STATEN ISLAND74

The law behind this order

Order 598is 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.