Properly Repair With Similar Material The Broken Or Defective
HPD order 502 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Sep 20, 1965 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 708,291 violations under order 502, "Properly Repair With Similar Material The Broken Or Defective", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 152,451 are open right now, 145,948 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
152,451
Open past deadline
145,948
Closed
555,840
All time
708,291
Class C (immediately hazardous)
67,869
How order 502 is actually enforced
21,640 notices (3.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
3,571 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 778 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
3,834 repairs were certified after the deadline.
48,984 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 502is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.