NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041 · cited Nov 2, 1981 – Aug 6, 2026
7,544 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041, which is 0.1% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 3,456 are still open, 3,402 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2041 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 2,869 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 2,119 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 651 | |
| BRONX | 336 | |
| MANHATTAN | 312 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 38 |
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§ 27-2041 Peepholes.
In every dwelling the owner shall provide and maintain a peephole in the entrance door of each dwelling unit. Such peephole shall be located, as prescribed by the department, in such a place that the person in each dwelling unit may view from the inside any person immediately outside the entrance door. However, such peephole need not be installed in any tenant-occupied one- or two-family home where it is possible to see from the inside any person immediately outside the entrance door. This section shall not apply to hotels, apartment hotels, college or school dormitories, or owner-occupied dwelling units in one- and two-family homes.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041, "Peepholes", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. In every dwelling the owner shall provide and maintain a peephole in the entrance door of each dwelling unit. Such peephole shall be located, as prescribed by the department, in such a place that the person in each dwelling unit may view from the inside any person immediately outside the entrance door. However, such peephole need not be installed in any tenant-occupied one- or two-family home where it is possible to see from the inside any person immediately outside the entrance door. This section shall not apply to hotels, apartment hotels, college or school dormitories, or owner-occupied dwelling units in one- and two-family homes.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 7,544 § 27-2041 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 2,869 § 27-2041 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
3,456 § 27-2041 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 3,402 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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