The Housing Maintenance Code (Administrative Code of City of NY, tit 27, ch 2) grants HPD the authority to order a dwelling vacated where it is "unfit for human habitation" (§ 27-2139 [b]), a condition defined as constituting "a danger to the life, health, or safety of its occupants" (§ 27-2139 [a]). Such an order
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