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Provide A Peep Hole In Entrance Door Of The

HPD order 690 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041 · written Nov 2, 1981 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 6,563 violations under order 690, "Provide A Peep Hole In Entrance Door Of The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041. 2,738 are open right now, 2,687 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,738
Open past deadline
2,687
Closed
3,825
All time
6,563
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 690 is actually enforced

  • 126 notices (1.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 23 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 2 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 39 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 3,213 notices (49.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,145 notices (17.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-690 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,730
QUEENS368
BRONX320
MANHATTAN311
STATEN ISLAND9

Buildings with the most open order-690 violations

  1. 1 LEXINGTON AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 29 open
  2. 521 16 STREET, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  3. 890 BROOKLYN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  4. 183 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  5. 32 MARCY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  6. 322 EAST 57 STREET, MANHATTAN · 7 open
  7. 1793 EAST 17 STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  8. 228 WEST 13 STREET, MANHATTAN · 6 open
  9. 498 7 STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  10. 145-44 105 AVENUE, QUEENS · 6 open

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The law behind this order

Order 690is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2041, "Peepholes". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2041 Peepholes · Browse open § 27-2041 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.