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Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste

HPD order 649 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Feb 24, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 47,686 violations under order 649, "Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 9,090 are open right now, 8,762 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
9,090
Open past deadline
8,762
Closed
38,596
All time
47,686
Class C (immediately hazardous)
8,116

How order 649 is actually enforced

  • 460 notices (1.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 193 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 20 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 346 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,782 notices (5.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 47,686 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.
  • 12,933 notices (27.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-649 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,377
BRONX2,602
MANHATTAN1,874
QUEENS1,104
STATEN ISLAND133

Buildings with the most open order-649 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 33 open
  2. 315 WEST 102 STREET, MANHATTAN · 21 open
  3. 11-21 47 ROAD, QUEENS · 20 open
  4. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 17 open
  5. 121-19 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, QUEENS · 16 open
  6. 790 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 16 open
  7. 121 EAST 95 STREET, BROOKLYN · 15 open
  8. 2809 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARD, MANHATTAN · 15 open
  9. 80 EAST 93 STREET, BROOKLYN · 15 open
  10. 1436 WEST 8 STREET, BROOKLYN · 13 open

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The law behind this order

Order 649is 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.