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Fire Escape Defective. Replace With New The Broken, Defective

HPD order 512 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 14, 1970 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 13,010 violations under order 512, "Fire Escape Defective. Replace With New The Broken, Defective", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 1,642 are open right now, 1,579 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,642
Open past deadline
1,579
Closed
11,368
All time
13,010
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,323

How order 512 is actually enforced

  • 257 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 39 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 104 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,141 notices (8.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 13,010 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.
  • 2,608 notices (20.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-512 violations by borough

BROOKLYN704
MANHATTAN450
BRONX307
QUEENS179
STATEN ISLAND2

The law behind this order

Order 512is 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.