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D26-19.01 Adm Code Provide Adequate Lighting Cellar Thru Out.

HPD order 684 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · written Feb 10, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 3,028 violations under order 684, "D26-19.01 Adm Code Provide Adequate Lighting Cellar Thru Out.", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 934 are open right now, 919 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
934
Open past deadline
919
Closed
2,094
All time
3,028
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 684 is actually enforced

  • 114 notices (3.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 14 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 2 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 18 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,191 notices (39.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 510 notices (16.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-684 violations by borough

BROOKLYN528
MANHATTAN178
BRONX141
QUEENS80
STATEN ISLAND7

The law behind this order

Order 684is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings · Browse open § 27-2037 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.