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Window frames and fire escapes in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014 · Manhattan · written Oct 5, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

5,302 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014 in Manhattan, 27.8% of the section's citywide record. 1,626 are open right now, 1,559 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,626
Open past deadline
1,559
Closed
3,676
All time in Manhattan
5,302
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 786 days against a median legal deadline of 95 days; the citywide median is 813 days.
  • 545 notices (10.3%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 9.0%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 27.8% of every § 27-2014 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2014 violations

  1. 533 WEST 145 STREET · 18 open
  2. 228 WEST 13 STREET · 13 open
  3. 143 WEST 140 STREET · 11 open
  4. 2321 2 AVENUE · 11 open
  5. 106 CONVENT AVENUE · 10 open
  6. 37 PAYSON AVENUE · 10 open
  7. 512 EAST 13 STREET · 9 open
  8. 133 AVENUE C · 7 open
  9. 528 WEST 123 STREET · 7 open
  10. 667 WEST 161 STREET · 7 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014, "Window frames and fire escapes". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2014 Window frames and fire escapes citywide · Browse open § 27-2014 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (2,899 open) · The Bronx (1,156 open) · Queens (762 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Manhattan rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.