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Remove The Illegal Fastening Double Cylinder Key Operated Lock

HPD order 526 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Mar 21, 1972 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 69,907 violations under order 526, "Remove The Illegal Fastening Double Cylinder Key Operated Lock", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 15,615 are open right now, 15,521 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
15,615
Open past deadline
15,521
Closed
54,292
All time
69,907
Class C (immediately hazardous)
51,852

How order 526 is actually enforced

  • 2,104 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 398 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 30 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,267 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 7,285 notices (10.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 69,907 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.
  • 13,065 notices (18.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-526 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,088
QUEENS3,111
BRONX2,738
MANHATTAN2,523
STATEN ISLAND155

The law behind this order

Order 526is 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.