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Window guards in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · Manhattan · written Oct 31, 2011 – Aug 5, 2026

23,082 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 in Manhattan, 16.8% of the section's citywide record. 1,565 are open right now, 1,534 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,565
Open past deadline
1,534
Closed
21,517
All time in Manhattan
23,082
Class C (immediately hazardous)
23,082

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 100 days against a median legal deadline of 28 days; the citywide median is 89 days.
  • 229 notices (1.0%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 16.8% of every § 27-2043.1 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2043.1 violations

  1. 127 ALLEN STREET · 9 open
  2. 306 EAST 116 STREET · 9 open
  3. 73 AVENUE C · 8 open
  4. 98 VERMILYEA AVENUE · 7 open
  5. 40 THAYER STREET · 7 open
  6. 157 WEST 119 STREET · 7 open
  7. 434 EAST 115 STREET · 6 open
  8. 437 MANHATTAN AVENUE · 6 open
  9. 215 EAST 76 STREET · 5 open
  10. 2034 7 AVENUE · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, "Window guards". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2043.1 Window guards citywide · Browse open § 27-2043.1 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (3,252 open) · Brooklyn (4,762 open) · Queens (2,085 open) · Staten Island (134 open)

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