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Window guards in Queens

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · Queens · written Nov 1, 2011 – Aug 6, 2026

14,286 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 in Queens, 10.4% of the section's citywide record. 2,085 are open right now, 1,997 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,085
Open past deadline
1,997
Closed
12,201
All time in Queens
14,286
Class C (immediately hazardous)
14,286

Queens against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Queens took 94 days against a median legal deadline of 28 days; the citywide median is 89 days.
  • 287 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Queens accounts for 10.4% of every § 27-2043.1 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2043.1 violations

  1. 1870 PALMETTO STREET · 14 open
  2. 7-11 SEAGIRT AVENUE · 8 open
  3. 45-15 50 AVENUE · 8 open
  4. 37-37 88 STREET · 8 open
  5. 41-40 DENMAN STREET · 8 open
  6. 34-13 9 STREET · 7 open
  7. 70-14 66 STREET · 7 open
  8. 84-70 129 STREET · 6 open
  9. 89-04 146 STREET · 6 open
  10. 37-20 87 STREET · 6 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens 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 Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (3,252 open) · Brooklyn (4,762 open) · Manhattan (1,565 open) · Staten Island (134 open)

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