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Provide Security In The Event Of A Power Outage

HPD order 504 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Feb 25, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 36,517 violations under order 504, "Provide Security In The Event Of A Power Outage", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 9,379 are open right now, 8,962 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
9,379
Open past deadline
8,962
Closed
27,138
All time
36,517
Class C (immediately hazardous)
6,839

How order 504 is actually enforced

  • 1,855 notices (5.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 244 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 87 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 233 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,190 notices (14.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,692 notices (23.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-504 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,396
BRONX3,028
MANHATTAN2,075
QUEENS842
STATEN ISLAND38

Buildings with the most open order-504 violations

  1. 196 CLINTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  2. 1555 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX · 20 open
  3. 275 CLINTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 19 open
  4. 2156 CRUGER AVENUE, BRONX · 19 open
  5. 2308 CROTONA AVENUE, BRONX · 18 open
  6. 916 FAILE STREET, BRONX · 18 open
  7. 1011 WASHINGTON AVENUE, BRONX · 15 open
  8. 1500 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX · 14 open
  9. 537 OVINGTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 14 open
  10. 3214 KINGSBRIDGE AVENUE, BRONX · 14 open

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The law behind this order

Order 504is 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.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.