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Repair By Closing So As To Be Gas Tight

HPD order 599 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Apr 27, 1974 – Jul 15, 2026

HPD has written 2,086 violations under order 599, "Repair By Closing So As To Be Gas Tight", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 692 are open right now, 691 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
692
Open past deadline
691
Closed
1,394
All time
2,086
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 599 is actually enforced

  • 25 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 4 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 1 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 26 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,057 notices (50.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,086 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.
  • 219 notices (10.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-599 violations by borough

BROOKLYN283
MANHATTAN249
QUEENS96
BRONX58
STATEN ISLAND6

Buildings with the most open order-599 violations

  1. 111 DOUGLASS STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  2. 231 WEST 116 STREET, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  3. 370 3 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  4. 829 60 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  5. 415 WEST 128 STREET, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  6. 335 3 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  7. 79 POST AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  8. 87 WAVERLY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  9. 199 STANTON STREET, MANHATTAN · 3 open
  10. 528 CHAUNCEY STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open

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The law behind this order

Order 599is 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.