Fire Egress Defective. Remove The Obstruction In Fireproof Passageway
HPD order 524 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Dec 7, 1973 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 4,376 violations under order 524, "Fire Egress Defective. Remove The Obstruction In Fireproof Passageway", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 765 are open right now, 747 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
765
Open past deadline
747
Closed
3,611
All time
4,376
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0
How order 524 is actually enforced
214 notices (4.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
28 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 10 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
27 repairs were certified after the deadline.
768 notices (17.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
4,376 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 524is 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.