Staffers from the city Comptroller’s office found that 57.9 percent of the 262 NYCHA complexes they checked had doors that were not properly secured.
More than half of the developments run by the city’s embattled Housing Authority have doors that were either broken or jammed open during a recent inspections sweep, a new audit has found.
“We found numerous instances where doors were propped open with bricks, rocks, or other objects to prevent them from locking,” the Comptroller’s Office detailed in a letter it sent to NYCHA on Tuesday. “We also found that many door locks did not securely latch onto the door frames or strike plates, and in some cases it appeared that door and frame magnets intended to assist in securing the doors were missing or did not work.
Photos taken by the auditors as they swept through two-thirds of NYCHA’s 335 developments reveal that one housing development, the Marble Hill Houses in The Bronx, had an entrance that was missing a door entirely. All told, more than one-third of projects examined — 37% — had at least one entrance door that was inappropriately jammed open, while 40% had at least one with a broken lock.
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