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Ulations. Remove The Encumbrance Obstructing Egress From Fire Escapes

HPD order 539 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Mar 23, 1973 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 88,332 violations under order 539, "Ulations. Remove The Encumbrance Obstructing Egress From Fire Escapes", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 14,818 are open right now, 14,224 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
14,818
Open past deadline
14,224
Closed
73,514
All time
88,332
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 539 is actually enforced

  • 2,848 notices (3.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 683 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 159 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 543 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 8,640 notices (9.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 27,538 notices (31.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-539 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,086
MANHATTAN3,635
BRONX1,997
QUEENS1,937
STATEN ISLAND163

Buildings with the most open order-539 violations

  1. 201 CHESTNUT STREET, BROOKLYN · 47 open
  2. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 32 open
  3. 89-10 WHITNEY AVENUE, QUEENS · 32 open
  4. 229 EAST 18 STREET, BROOKLYN · 25 open
  5. 142-20 FRANKLIN AVENUE, QUEENS · 22 open
  6. 3250 CONEY ISLAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 21 open
  7. 1800 OCEAN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN · 20 open
  8. 192 EAST 56 STREET, BROOKLYN · 19 open
  9. 237 OVINGTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 19 open
  10. 570 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 19 open

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The law behind this order

Order 539is 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.