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Remove Device Preventing Door From Being Self-Closing Consisting Of

HPD order 536 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 15, 1990 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 27,710 violations under order 536, "Remove Device Preventing Door From Being Self-Closing Consisting Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 3,064 are open right now, 2,929 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
3,064
Open past deadline
2,929
Closed
24,646
All time
27,710
Class C (immediately hazardous)
24,229

How order 536 is actually enforced

  • 536 notices (1.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 231 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 98 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 145 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 315 notices (1.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 5,361 notices (19.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-536 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,182
MANHATTAN703
BRONX600
QUEENS545
STATEN ISLAND34

The law behind this order

Order 536is 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.