Install The Missing Or Repair/Replace The Defective Window Guard(S)
HPD order 790 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · written Oct 28, 2011 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 128,456 violations under order 790, "Install The Missing Or Repair/Replace The Defective Window Guard(S)", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1. 11,417 are open right now, 11,083 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
11,417
Open past deadline
11,083
Closed
117,039
All time
128,456
Class C (immediately hazardous)
128,456
How order 790 is actually enforced
1,588 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
367 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 98 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
375 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,147 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 790is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, "Window guards". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.