The Fire Safety Notice

What

A notice inside every apartment door

Every year

Fire Prevention Week, in October

Also

Given to every new tenant

What HPD requires

HPD says owners must post a Fire Safety Notice on the inside of every apartment door. Owners also give the notice to each apartment, to new tenants, and every year during Fire Prevention Week in October.

Doors

HPD says all residential buildings with 3 or more apartments must have self-closing doors.

How Woodpecker handles it

This is not one of the filings in a Woodpecker plan. Customers get an email reminder before it comes due, and it is listed on their status page.

Check your building

Sources: HPD, Fire Safety, HPD, Bulletin to Property Owners, August 2022.

HPD's pages behind this guide were last checked on November 10, 2026.

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