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Fire Egress Defective. Make Stationary The Iron Ladder Leading

HPD order 525 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Apr 14, 1970 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 3,555 violations under order 525, "Fire Egress Defective. Make Stationary The Iron Ladder Leading", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 1,580 are open right now, 1,575 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,580
Open past deadline
1,575
Closed
1,975
All time
3,555
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 525 is actually enforced

  • 164 notices (4.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 29 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 1 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 48 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,233 notices (34.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 514 notices (14.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-525 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,110
QUEENS198
MANHATTAN144
BRONX123
STATEN ISLAND5

The law behind this order

Order 525is 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.