Remove The Illegal Fastening Double Cylinder Key Operated Lock
HPD order 526 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Mar 21, 1972 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 69,931 violations under order 526, "Remove The Illegal Fastening Double Cylinder Key Operated Lock", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 15,604 are open right now, 15,505 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
15,604
Open past deadline
15,505
Closed
54,327
All time
69,931
Class C (immediately hazardous)
51,871
How order 526 is actually enforced
2,112 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
400 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 31 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
1,267 repairs were certified after the deadline.
7,294 notices (10.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
69,931 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 526is 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.