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Fire Escape Defective. Properly Secure The Loose And Hanging

HPD order 514 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Aug 3, 1976Aug 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.
  • 1,026 notices (16.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-514 violations by borough

BROOKLYN387
MANHATTAN258
BRONX109
QUEENS82
STATEN ISLAND3

Buildings with the most open order-514 violations

  1. 161 WEST 140 STREET, MANHATTAN · 30 open
  2. 140-71 ASH AVENUE, QUEENS · 9 open
  3. 755 OAKLAND PLACE, BRONX · 7 open
  4. 549 WEST 163 STREET, MANHATTAN · 7 open
  5. 311 EAST 3 STREET, MANHATTAN · 7 open
  6. 611 WEST 141 STREET, MANHATTAN · 6 open
  7. 234 WEST 16 STREET, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  8. 1278 UNION AVENUE, BRONX · 5 open
  9. 1111 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, BRONX · 4 open
  10. 225 PARKSIDE AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open

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The law behind this order

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.

§ 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.