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Fire Egress Defective. Restore Egress By Removing Locking Device

HPD order 523 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 13, 1976 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 1,792 violations under order 523, "Fire Egress Defective. Restore Egress By Removing Locking Device", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 494 are open right now, 491 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
494
Open past deadline
491
Closed
1,298
All time
1,792
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 523 is actually enforced

  • 92 notices (5.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 19 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.
  • 13 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 513 notices (28.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,792 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.
  • 360 notices (20.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-523 violations by borough

BROOKLYN304
MANHATTAN74
QUEENS71
BRONX43
STATEN ISLAND2

The law behind this order

Order 523is 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.