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Fire Egress Defective. Remove The Obstruction In Fireproof Passageway

HPD order 524 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Dec 7, 1973 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 4,375 violations under order 524, "Fire Egress Defective. Remove The Obstruction In Fireproof Passageway", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 768 are open right now, 750 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
768
Open past deadline
750
Closed
3,607
All time
4,375
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 524 is actually enforced

  • 214 notices (4.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 28 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 10 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 27 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 768 notices (17.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 4,375 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.
  • 1,083 notices (24.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-524 violations by borough

BROOKLYN373
BRONX153
MANHATTAN130
QUEENS112

The law behind this order

Order 524is 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.