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Properly Repair With Similar Material The Broken Or Defective

HPD order 502 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Sep 20, 1965 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 707,686 violations under order 502, "Properly Repair With Similar Material The Broken Or Defective", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 152,582 are open right now, 146,277 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
152,582
Open past deadline
146,277
Closed
555,104
All time
707,686
Class C (immediately hazardous)
67,801

How order 502 is actually enforced

  • 21,438 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 3,571 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 775 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 3,832 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 48,948 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 180,516 notices (25.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-502 violations by borough

BROOKLYN58,338
BRONX42,758
MANHATTAN35,034
QUEENS15,055
STATEN ISLAND1,397

The law behind this order

Order 502is 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.