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Water leaks violations in Manhattan.

35,073

water leaks violations cited in Manhattan in the trailing 3 years, read from the city’s open-data API at this deploy.

What this means

Active leaks cascade into mold, electrical, and structural items if left open. Leak violations frequently recur across units of the same building on the record.

In the verified feed

610 case files in Manhattan right now, 333 carrying ten or more open Class C hazards, median 20 per file. Stamped August 25, 2026, refreshed nightly.

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How a violation reaches this record

Most rows here start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if an inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From that point the violation is searchable on HPD Online by address. It stays on the public record used throughout this site until the agency accepts a correction or the agency closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.

The monthly pattern

Water leaks violations HPD has cited in Manhattan, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months so every month is counted across the same three years. August carries the most at 3,446. November carries the fewest at 2,211.

MonthViolations
January2,630
February2,524
March3,199
April3,397
May2,954
June3,050
July2,959
August3,446
September3,237
October3,194
November2,211
December2,256

By class

HPD sorts every water leaks violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Manhattan, HPD has issued 4,212 Class C water leaks violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 28,620 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 3,112 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

3,112Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
28,620Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
4,212Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 11.7% of the 35,944 water leaks violations recorded in Manhattan.

The certification record

Of 4,212 Class C water leaks violations in Manhattan, 1,354 have ever been certified corrected, 32.1%. Correction took a median of 16 days and a 90th percentile of 33 days. 1,737 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

2.9% of water leaks violations in Manhattan are currently marked Not Complied With, HPD's status once the certify-by date passes without an accepted certification.

After a certification is filed

Filing a certification does not automatically close a case. If HPD reviews the paperwork and finds it insufficient, the case moves to Defect Letter Issued and the owner must refile. If a reinspection later finds the condition still uncorrected despite a certification on file, the case moves to Invalid Certification. A certification accepted after the certify-by date is marked NOV Certified Late rather than on time; one accepted before it is marked NOV Certified On Time. Each of these statuses carries its own page in the status glossary, decoded in plain language.

Against the citywide figure

Manhattan has recorded 35,944 water leaks violations, 17.2% of the citywide total of 208,915. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughWater leaks violations
Bronx77,625
Brooklyn66,289
Manhattan35,944
Queens25,432
Staten Island3,625

Where it concentrates

The streets carrying the most open water leaks violations in Manhattan, aggregated by street, never by building or owner:

StreetOpen violations
Broadway447
St Nicholas Avenue427
Adam C Powell Boulevard411
Amsterdam Avenue371
Frederick Douglass Boulevard278
2 Avenue269
Riverside Drive252
Lenox Avenue186

Open means the current status is neither Violation Dismissed nor Violation Closed.

The status breakdown

Every current status HPD has recorded against a water leaks violation in Manhattan, most common first. Each status name links to its own page in the glossary where one exists.

StatusViolations
Violation Closed11,358
Violation Dismissed10,915
Nov Sent Out9,184
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation1,531
Not Complied With1,054
Violation Will Be Reinspected516
Civ14 Mailed428
Invalid Certification302
Nov Certified Late227
Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant98
Nov Certified On Time97
Defect Letter Issued87
False Certification68
Violation Open32
Certification Postponment Denied23
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation18
Certification Postponment Granted6

Aggregates only; no building or owner is named here. The monthly, class, certification, street, and status figures above are queried from HPD's own violation record, pulled August 27, 2026, based on 35,944 water leaks violation rows in Manhattan. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.