Remove Device Preventing Door From Being Self-Closing Consisting Of
HPD order 536 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written May 15, 1990 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 27,740 violations under order 536, "Remove Device Preventing Door From Being Self-Closing Consisting Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 3,037 are open right now, 2,897 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
3,037
Open past deadline
2,897
Closed
24,703
All time
27,740
Class C (immediately hazardous)
24,259
How order 536 is actually enforced
535 notices (1.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
231 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 98 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
144 repairs were certified after the deadline.
317 notices (1.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 536is 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.