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Replace The Broken Or Defective Wash Basin In The

HPD order 596 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Jan 30, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 28,181 violations under order 596, "Replace The Broken Or Defective Wash Basin In The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 4,502 are open right now, 4,392 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,502
Open past deadline
4,392
Closed
23,679
All time
28,181
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,063

How order 596 is actually enforced

  • 440 notices (1.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 99 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 16 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 159 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,255 notices (4.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 28,181 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.
  • 7,380 notices (26.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-596 violations by borough

BRONX1,497
BROOKLYN1,401
MANHATTAN1,202
QUEENS375
STATEN ISLAND27

Buildings with the most open order-596 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  2. 129 WEST 147 STREET, MANHATTAN · 11 open
  3. 728 EAST 221 STREET, BRONX · 9 open
  4. 125 BAINBRIDGE STREET, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  5. 87 HAMILTON PLACE, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  6. 157 WEST 119 STREET, MANHATTAN · 8 open
  7. 298 ST MARKS PLACE, STATEN ISLAND · 8 open
  8. 700 LENOX AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 7 open
  9. 1663 76 STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  10. 11 MT MORRIS PARK WEST, MANHATTAN · 7 open

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The law behind this order

Order 596is 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.