Fire Egress Defective. Make Stationary The Iron Ladder Leading
HPD order 525 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Apr 14, 1970 – Aug 3, 2026
HPD has written 3,555 violations under order 525, "Fire Egress Defective. Make Stationary The Iron Ladder Leading", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 1,580 are open right now, 1,575 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
1,580
Open past deadline
1,575
Closed
1,975
All time
3,555
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0
How order 525 is actually enforced
164 notices (4.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
29 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 1 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
48 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,233 notices (34.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 525is 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.