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Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · Manhattan · written Feb 5, 1969 – Aug 6, 2026

137,070 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 in Manhattan, 18.6% of the section's citywide record. 24,682 are open right now, 23,508 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
24,682
Open past deadline
23,508
Closed
112,388
All time in Manhattan
137,070
Class C (immediately hazardous)
17,440

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 305 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 276 days.
  • 1,657 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 18.6% of every § 27-2026 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2026 violations

  1. 2541 7 AVENUE · 122 open
  2. 700 LENOX AVENUE · 117 open
  3. 129 WEST 147 STREET · 78 open
  4. 2809 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARD · 75 open
  5. 101 WEST 147 STREET · 74 open
  6. 438 WEST 164 STREET · 73 open
  7. 2034 7 AVENUE · 72 open
  8. 140 NAGLE AVENUE · 66 open
  9. 2569 7 AVENUE · 62 open
  10. 14 EAST 127 STREET · 61 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, "Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2026 Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures citywide · Browse open § 27-2026 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (41,916 open) · Brooklyn (57,677 open) · Queens (26,333 open) · Staten Island (5,224 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Manhattan rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.