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Repair By Closing So As To Be Gas Tight

HPD order 599 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Apr 27, 1974 – Jul 15, 2026

HPD has written 2,086 violations under order 599, "Repair By Closing So As To Be Gas Tight", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 694 are open right now, 693 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
694
Open past deadline
693
Closed
1,392
All time
2,086
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 599 is actually enforced

  • 25 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 4 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 1 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 26 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,057 notices (50.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,086 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.
  • 219 notices (10.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-599 violations by borough

BROOKLYN285
MANHATTAN249
QUEENS96
BRONX58
STATEN ISLAND6

The law behind this order

Order 599is 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.