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Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste

HPD order 649 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Feb 24, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 47,660 violations under order 649, "Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 9,107 are open right now, 8,786 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
9,107
Open past deadline
8,786
Closed
38,553
All time
47,660
Class C (immediately hazardous)
8,113

How order 649 is actually enforced

  • 457 notices (1.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 193 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 20 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 345 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,774 notices (5.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 47,660 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.
  • 12,926 notices (27.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-649 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,382
BRONX2,614
MANHATTAN1,875
QUEENS1,104
STATEN ISLAND132

The law behind this order

Order 649is 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.