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Provide A Lock And Key To The Entrance Door

HPD order 692 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043 · written Nov 7, 1977 – Jul 15, 2026

HPD has written 10,698 violations under order 692, "Provide A Lock And Key To The Entrance Door", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043. 2,166 are open right now, 2,157 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,166
Open past deadline
2,157
Closed
8,532
All time
10,698
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 692 is actually enforced

  • 353 notices (3.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 27 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 29 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,792 notices (26.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,399 notices (22.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-692 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,411
QUEENS561
MANHATTAN131
BRONX57
STATEN ISLAND6

The law behind this order

Order 692is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043, "Locks in dwelling unit doors". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2043 Locks in dwelling unit doors · Browse open § 27-2043 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.