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Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At

HPD order 898 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written May 4, 2000 – Jul 30, 2026

HPD has written 8,735 violations under order 898, "Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 4,926 are open right now, 4,900 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,926
Open past deadline
4,900
Closed
3,809
All time
8,735
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,144

How order 898 is actually enforced

  • 75 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 65 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 110 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,429 notices (16.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 675 notices (7.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-898 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,044
QUEENS1,586
BRONX731
STATEN ISLAND554
MANHATTAN11

The law behind this order

Order 898is 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.