NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · cited Oct 28, 2011 – Aug 6, 2026
137,645 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, which is 1.2% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 11,798 are still open, 11,440 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2043.1 notice is 28 days. The median violation that got fixed took 89 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 76,261 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 4,762 | |
|---|---|---|
| BRONX | 3,252 | |
| QUEENS | 2,085 | |
| MANHATTAN | 1,565 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 134 |
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§ 27-2043.1 Window guards.
a. An owner of a multiple dwelling and an owner of a dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling owned as a condominium shall provide, install and maintain a window guard, in accordance with specifications established by the department of health and mental hygiene, on each window of each dwelling unit in which a child ten years of age or under resides, and on the windows, if any, in the public areas of a multiple dwelling in which such a child resides.
b. Subdivision a of this section shall not apply to a window that gives access to a fire escape or to a window that is a required means of egress from a dwelling unit on the first floor of a multiple dwelling.
c. No tenant or occupant of a dwelling unit, or other person, shall obstruct or interfere with the installation or maintenance of a window guard as required by subdivision a of this section nor shall any person remove such window guard.
d. No owner of a multiple dwelling and no owner of a dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling owned as a condominium shall refuse a written request of a tenant or occupant of a dwelling unit to provide, install and maintain a window guard, in accordance with specifications established by the department of health and mental hygiene, regardless of whether such provision, installation and maintenance is required pursuant to subdivision a of this section, except that this subdivision shall not apply to a window that gives access to a fire escape or to a window that is a required means of egress from a dwelling unit on the first floor of a multiple dwelling.
e. Any owner required to provide, install and maintain a window guard pursuant to subdivision a or d of this section who fails to provide, install or maintain a window guard shall be liable for a class C immediately hazardous violation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the time within which to correct such violation shall be twenty-one days after service of the notice of violation.
f. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department shall be the sole agency of the city authorized to seek a monetary penalty from an owner who is required to provide, install and maintain a window guard for failure to provide, install or maintain such window guard. Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the department of health and mental hygiene to investigate a fall from any window or to issue an order to correct any condition that such department determines contributed to such fall.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, "Window guards", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. An owner of a multiple dwelling and an owner of a dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling owned as a condominium shall provide, install and maintain a window guard, in accordance with specifications established by the department of health and mental hygiene, on each window of each dwelling unit in which a child ten years of age or under resides, and on the windows, if any, in the public areas of a multiple dwelling in which such a child resides.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 137,645 § 27-2043.1 notices, the median legal deadline was 28 days from the notice date.
Measured across 76,261 § 27-2043.1 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 89 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 28 days.
11,798 § 27-2043.1 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 11,440 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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