Fire Escape Defective. Adjust The Dropladder So That It
HPD order 513 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 17, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 13,481 violations under order 513, "Fire Escape Defective. Adjust The Dropladder So That It", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 2,109 are open right now, 2,027 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
2,109
Open past deadline
2,027
Closed
11,372
All time
13,481
Class C (immediately hazardous)
3,682
How order 513 is actually enforced
324 notices (2.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
83 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 9 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
89 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,031 notices (7.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
13,481 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.
Order 513is 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.