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Properly Secure The Loose Wash Basin In The Bathroom

HPD order 509 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Jun 29, 1973 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 95,591 violations under order 509, "Properly Secure The Loose Wash Basin In The Bathroom", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 19,904 are open right now, 19,274 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
19,904
Open past deadline
19,274
Closed
75,687
All time
95,591
Class C (immediately hazardous)
7,251

How order 509 is actually enforced

  • 1,696 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 403 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 70 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 621 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 13,476 notices (14.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 23,088 notices (24.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-509 violations by borough

BROOKLYN9,231
MANHATTAN4,247
BRONX3,966
QUEENS2,164
STATEN ISLAND296

Buildings with the most open order-509 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 33 open
  2. 1350 PARK PLACE, BROOKLYN · 27 open
  3. 161 WEST 140 STREET, MANHATTAN · 23 open
  4. 1015 PACIFIC STREET, BROOKLYN · 18 open
  5. 470 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 18 open
  6. 3520 CORSA AVENUE, BRONX · 17 open
  7. 415 WEST 128 STREET, MANHATTAN · 15 open
  8. 9 FT WASHINGTON AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 15 open
  9. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 15 open
  10. 112 PATCHEN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 14 open

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The law behind this order

Order 509is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.