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Fire Egress Defective. Remove Obstructing Bars Or Unlawful Gates

HPD order 522 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Nov 20, 1970 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 13,140 violations under order 522, "Fire Egress Defective. Remove Obstructing Bars Or Unlawful Gates", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 2,791 are open right now, 2,739 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,791
Open past deadline
2,739
Closed
10,349
All time
13,140
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 522 is actually enforced

  • 404 notices (3.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 63 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 13 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 84 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,238 notices (9.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 3,571 notices (27.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-522 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,628
BRONX505
MANHATTAN354
QUEENS275
STATEN ISLAND29

The law behind this order

Order 522is 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.