Tenants and landlords or managers should cooperate to ensure that window guards are installed properly. Tenants who do not have children living with them, but have children visiting frequently should have window guards installed as well. The Health Department also strongly recommends that New Yorkers with children in one and two-family houses, which are not included in the Window Guards Law, should install window guards as well. If your window guards are not installed yet, keep your bottom windows closed and only open your top windows for fresh air. Furniture on which children can climb should not be near windows.
Some babies can climb up onto furniture and crawl through open windows before they can even walk.