Remove The Illegal Double Cylinder Key Operated Locking Device
HPD order 546 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Mar 16, 2015 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 5,416 violations under order 546, "Remove The Illegal Double Cylinder Key Operated Locking Device", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 1,358 are open right now, 1,355 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
1,358
Open past deadline
1,355
Closed
4,058
All time
5,416
Class C (immediately hazardous)
5,416
How order 546 is actually enforced
151 notices (2.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
49 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
97 repairs were certified after the deadline.
116 notices (2.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 546is 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.