Fire Escape Defective. Properly Secure The Loose And Hanging
HPD order 514 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Aug 3, 1976 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 6,264 violations under order 514, "Fire Escape Defective. Properly Secure The Loose And Hanging", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 839 are open right now, 825 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
839
Open past deadline
825
Closed
5,425
All time
6,264
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,437
How order 514 is actually enforced
87 notices (1.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
18 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 5 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
57 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,004 notices (16.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
6,264 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 514is 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.