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Provide Security In The Event Of A Power Outage

HPD order 504 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Feb 25, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 36,488 violations under order 504, "Provide Security In The Event Of A Power Outage", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 9,406 are open right now, 8,979 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
9,406
Open past deadline
8,979
Closed
27,082
All time
36,488
Class C (immediately hazardous)
6,837

How order 504 is actually enforced

  • 1,822 notices (5.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 240 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 85 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 232 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,181 notices (14.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,682 notices (23.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-504 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,390
BRONX3,064
MANHATTAN2,072
QUEENS842
STATEN ISLAND38

The law behind this order

Order 504is 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.