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Fire Escape Defective. Replace With New The Broken, Defective

HPD order 512 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 14, 1970 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 13,018 violations under order 512, "Fire Escape Defective. Replace With New The Broken, Defective", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 1,630 are open right now, 1,567 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,630
Open past deadline
1,567
Closed
11,388
All time
13,018
Class C (immediately hazardous)
9,330

How order 512 is actually enforced

  • 265 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 39 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 104 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,141 notices (8.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 13,018 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 2,612 notices (20.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-512 violations by borough

BROOKLYN700
MANHATTAN447
BRONX310
QUEENS171
STATEN ISLAND2

Buildings with the most open order-512 violations

  1. 2084 BRONX PARK EAST, BRONX · 11 open
  2. 161 WEST 140 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  3. 595 EAST 170 STREET, BRONX · 9 open
  4. 32-06 47 STREET, QUEENS · 8 open
  5. 1862 EAST 14 STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  6. 151 2 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 6 open
  7. 408 WEST 130 STREET, MANHATTAN · 6 open
  8. 325 EAST 92 STREET, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  9. 94A GREENWICH STREET, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  10. 940 REV JAMES POLITE AVENUE, BRONX · 5 open

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The law behind this order

Order 512is 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.