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Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At

HPD order 598 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Jul 23, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 53,181 violations under order 598, "Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 8,805 are open right now, 8,529 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
8,805
Open past deadline
8,529
Closed
44,376
All time
53,181
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,036

How order 598 is actually enforced

  • 448 notices (0.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 192 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 18 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 279 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,574 notices (4.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 13,256 notices (24.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-598 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,473
BRONX2,516
MANHATTAN1,693
QUEENS1,049
STATEN ISLAND74

Buildings with the most open order-598 violations

  1. 772 EAST 168 STREET, BRONX · 25 open
  2. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 20 open
  3. 2342 RYER AVENUE, BRONX · 14 open
  4. 1449 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN · 13 open
  5. 240 EAST 119 STREET, MANHATTAN · 13 open
  6. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 12 open
  7. 74 5 AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 11 open
  8. 125 EAST 168 STREET, BRONX · 11 open
  9. 197 LENOX AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 11 open
  10. 11-21 47 ROAD, QUEENS · 10 open

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The law behind this order

Order 598is 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.