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Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Water Supply Pipe At

HPD order 578 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Nov 8, 1974 – Aug 4, 2026

HPD has written 7,924 violations under order 578, "Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Water Supply Pipe At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 1,526 are open right now, 1,489 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,526
Open past deadline
1,489
Closed
6,398
All time
7,924
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,913

How order 578 is actually enforced

  • 70 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 29 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 44 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 938 notices (11.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 7,924 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.
  • 1,916 notices (24.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-578 violations by borough

BROOKLYN579
MANHATTAN400
BRONX396
QUEENS133
STATEN ISLAND18

Buildings with the most open order-578 violations

  1. 415 WEST 128 STREET, MANHATTAN · 8 open
  2. 110 WEST 120 STREET, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  3. 772 EAST 168 STREET, BRONX · 4 open
  4. 486 GLENMORE AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  5. 342 EAST 98 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  6. 124 WEST 123 STREET, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  7. 233 WEST 134 STREET, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  8. 566 WEST 191 STREET, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  9. 185 PARK HILL AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 4 open
  10. 1652 GEORGE STREET, QUEENS · 3 open

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The law behind this order

Order 578is 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 7, 2026.