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Install The Missing Or Repair/Replace The Defective Window Guard(S)

HPD order 790 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · written Oct 28, 2011 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 128,414 violations under order 790, "Install The Missing Or Repair/Replace The Defective Window Guard(S)", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1. 11,436 are open right now, 11,145 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
11,436
Open past deadline
11,145
Closed
116,978
All time
128,414
Class C (immediately hazardous)
128,414

How order 790 is actually enforced

  • 1,584 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 369 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 100 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 375 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,138 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 46,361 notices (36.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-790 violations by borough

BROOKLYN4,621
BRONX3,137
QUEENS2,027
MANHATTAN1,520
STATEN ISLAND131

The law behind this order

Order 790is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, "Window guards". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2043.1 Window guards · Browse open § 27-2043.1 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.