NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043 · cited Nov 7, 1977 – Jul 15, 2026
10,786 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043, which is 0.1% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 2,218 are still open, 2,207 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2043 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 915 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 6,144 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 1,448 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 570 | |
| MANHATTAN | 131 | |
| BRONX | 62 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 7 |
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§ 27-2043 Locks in dwelling unit doors.
a. The owner of a dwelling shall provide a key lock in the entrance door to each dwelling unit and at least one key. In a class A multiple dwelling such door shall be equipped with a heavy duty latch set and a heavy duty dead bolt operable by a key from the outside and a thumb-turn from the inside.
b. Each dwelling unit entrance door in a class A multiple dwelling shall also be equipped with a chain door guard so as to permit partial opening of the door.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043, "Locks in dwelling unit doors", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of a dwelling shall provide a key lock in the entrance door to each dwelling unit and at least one key. In a class A multiple dwelling such door shall be equipped with a heavy duty latch set and a heavy duty dead bolt operable by a key from the outside and a thumb-turn from the inside.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 10,786 § 27-2043 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 6,144 § 27-2043 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 915 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
2,218 § 27-2043 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 2,207 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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