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Ulations. Remove The Encumbrance Obstructing Egress From Fire Escapes

HPD order 539 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Mar 23, 1973 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 88,267 violations under order 539, "Ulations. Remove The Encumbrance Obstructing Egress From Fire Escapes", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 14,840 are open right now, 14,227 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
14,840
Open past deadline
14,227
Closed
73,427
All time
88,267
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 539 is actually enforced

  • 2,820 notices (3.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 683 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 159 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 547 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 8,635 notices (9.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 27,531 notices (31.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-539 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,083
MANHATTAN3,637
BRONX2,024
QUEENS1,932
STATEN ISLAND164

The law behind this order

Order 539is 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.