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Reset, So As To Secure A Proper And Tight

HPD order 591 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Sep 4, 1984 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 17,110 violations under order 591, "Reset, So As To Secure A Proper And Tight", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 2,929 are open right now, 2,579 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,929
Open past deadline
2,579
Closed
14,181
All time
17,110
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 591 is actually enforced

  • 223 notices (1.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 71 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 13 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 44 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,075 notices (6.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 5,413 notices (31.6%) were dismissed.

Open order-591 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,129
BRONX871
MANHATTAN557
QUEENS345
STATEN ISLAND27

Buildings with the most open order-591 violations

  1. 1177 WALTON AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
  2. 428 EAST 98 STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  3. 30-74 33 STREET, QUEENS · 7 open
  4. 2541 7 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 7 open
  5. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  6. 906 SIMPSON STREET, BRONX · 6 open
  7. 1029 53 STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  8. 267 EAST 188 STREET, BRONX · 6 open
  9. 603 BRADFORD STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  10. 1015 PACIFIC STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open

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The law behind this order

Order 591is 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.