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Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Faucets At Bathtub In

HPD order 579 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written May 17, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 140,567 violations under order 579, "Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Faucets At Bathtub In", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 24,483 are open right now, 23,506 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
24,483
Open past deadline
23,506
Closed
116,084
All time
140,567
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,048

How order 579 is actually enforced

  • 1,488 notices (1.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 589 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 96 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 749 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 9,422 notices (6.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 40,972 notices (29.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-579 violations by borough

BROOKLYN9,240
BRONX7,003
MANHATTAN5,378
QUEENS2,585
STATEN ISLAND277

Buildings with the most open order-579 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 90 open
  2. 772 EAST 168 STREET, BRONX · 53 open
  3. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 47 open
  4. 3520 CORSA AVENUE, BRONX · 42 open
  5. 760 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 33 open
  6. 1600 SEDGWICK AVENUE, BRONX · 32 open
  7. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 31 open
  8. 700 LENOX AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 25 open
  9. 229 EAST 18 STREET, BROOKLYN · 23 open
  10. 2160 WALTON AVENUE, BRONX · 23 open

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The law behind this order

Order 579is 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.