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Fire Escape Defective. Adjust The Dropladder So That It

HPD order 513 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 17, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 13,469 violations under order 513, "Fire Escape Defective. Adjust The Dropladder So That It", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 2,107 are open right now, 2,032 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,107
Open past deadline
2,032
Closed
11,362
All time
13,469
Class C (immediately hazardous)
3,679

How order 513 is actually enforced

  • 321 notices (2.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 83 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 9 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 89 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,029 notices (7.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 13,469 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.
  • 3,439 notices (25.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-513 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,148
BRONX382
MANHATTAN317
QUEENS205
STATEN ISLAND55

The law behind this order

Order 513is 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.