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

HPD order 791 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · written Nov 4, 2011 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 9,186 violations under order 791, "Install The Missing Or Repair/Replace The Defective Window Guard(S)", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1. 389 are open right now, 368 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
389
Open past deadline
368
Closed
8,797
All time
9,186
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,186

How order 791 is actually enforced

  • 65 notices (0.7%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 14 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 15 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 25 notices (0.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,262 notices (24.6%) were dismissed.

Open order-791 violations by borough

BROOKLYN153
BRONX125
QUEENS59
MANHATTAN49
STATEN ISLAND3

The law behind this order

Order 791is 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.