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Properly Repair Or Replace The Broken Or Defective Latch

HPD order 501 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Oct 19, 1964 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 704,713 violations under order 501, "Properly Repair Or Replace The Broken Or Defective Latch", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 155,747 are open right now, 148,485 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
155,747
Open past deadline
148,485
Closed
548,966
All time
704,713
Class C (immediately hazardous)
105,600

How order 501 is actually enforced

  • 17,329 notices (2.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 4,106 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 800 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 4,325 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 48,714 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 187,940 notices (26.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-501 violations by borough

BROOKLYN54,291
BRONX48,123
MANHATTAN33,957
QUEENS17,981
STATEN ISLAND1,395

The law behind this order

Order 501is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.