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Fire Escape Defective. Properly Secure The Loose And Hanging

HPD order 514 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Aug 3, 1976 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 6,258 violations under order 514, "Fire Escape Defective. Properly Secure The Loose And Hanging", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 835 are open right now, 829 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
835
Open past deadline
829
Closed
5,423
All time
6,258
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,431

How order 514 is actually enforced

  • 87 notices (1.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 20 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 5 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 57 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,001 notices (16.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 6,258 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.
  • 1,026 notices (16.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-514 violations by borough

BROOKLYN387
MANHATTAN257
BRONX104
QUEENS84
STATEN ISLAND3

The law behind this order

Order 514is 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.