NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014 · cited Dec 29, 1972 – Aug 6, 2026
19,091 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014, which is 0.2% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 6,484 are still open, 5,929 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2014 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 813 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 9,032 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 2,899 | |
|---|---|---|
| MANHATTAN | 1,626 | |
| BRONX | 1,156 | |
| QUEENS | 762 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 41 |
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§ 27-2014 Window frames and fire escapes.
a. At least once every five years, the owner of a dwelling shall paint all exterior window frames and sashes with one coat of an exterior paint. The department may require a more frequent repainting of any window frame or sash, as it deems necessary. This subdivision shall not apply to window frames and sashes of approved atmospheric corrosion resistant metal.
b. The owner of a dwelling shall paint every fire escape with two coats of paint of contrasting colors. The owner shall paint the first coat before and the second after erection of a new fire escape, except that this shall not apply to fire escapes constructed of approved atmospheric corrosion resistant metal. Whenever a fire escape becomes corroded, the owner shall scrape and remove the corrosion products and repaint it with two coats of paint of contrasting colors.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014, "Window frames and fire escapes", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. At least once every five years, the owner of a dwelling shall paint all exterior window frames and sashes with one coat of an exterior paint. The department may require a more frequent repainting of any window frame or sash, as it deems necessary. This subdivision shall not apply to window frames and sashes of approved atmospheric corrosion resistant metal.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 19,091 § 27-2014 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 9,032 § 27-2014 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 813 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
6,484 § 27-2014 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 5,929 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.
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