NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2024 · cited Feb 24, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026
55,001 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2024, which is 0.5% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 16,008 are still open, 15,746 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2024 notice is 23 days. The median violation that got fixed took 162 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 27,671 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 6,275 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 3,743 | |
| BRONX | 3,147 | |
| MANHATTAN | 2,153 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 690 |
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§ 27-2024 Water supply to buildings.
The owner of a dwelling shall provide and maintain a supply of pure and wholesome water sufficient in quantity and at sufficient pressure to keep all plumbing fixtures adequately supplied for their sanitary maintenance. Where water mains are available in the street, every dwelling shall be supplied with water from such mains. The owner shall keep the water supply free from connection to any unsafe water supply or from cross-connections to any drainage system.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2024, "Water supply to buildings", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of a dwelling shall provide and maintain a supply of pure and wholesome water sufficient in quantity and at sufficient pressure to keep all plumbing fixtures adequately supplied for their sanitary maintenance. Where water mains are available in the street, every dwelling shall be supplied with water from such mains. The owner shall keep the water supply free from connection to any unsafe water supply or from cross-connections to any drainage system.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 55,001 § 27-2024 notices, the median legal deadline was 23 days from the notice date.
Measured across 27,671 § 27-2024 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 162 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 23 days.
40,437 of 55,001 § 27-2024 notices (73.5%) are marked rent-impairing by HPD. When a rent-impairing violation goes unrepaired, New York's Multiple Dwelling Law § 302-a can let tenants deposit rent with the court instead of paying the owner. The specifics depend on the case.
16,008 § 27-2024 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 15,746 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.
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