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Fire Egress Defective. Remove Obstructing Bars Or Unlawful Gates

HPD order 521 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Sep 24, 1964 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 36,923 violations under order 521, "Fire Egress Defective. Remove Obstructing Bars Or Unlawful Gates", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 8,109 are open right now, 8,049 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
8,109
Open past deadline
8,049
Closed
28,814
All time
36,923
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 521 is actually enforced

  • 1,102 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 124 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 27 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 255 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 10,519 notices (28.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 7,043 notices (19.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-521 violations by borough

BROOKLYN4,023
MANHATTAN2,361
BRONX1,151
QUEENS547
STATEN ISLAND27

The law behind this order

Order 521is 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.