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Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · Manhattan · written Feb 10, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

6,011 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 in Manhattan, 12.0% of the section's citywide record. 1,053 are open right now, 1,040 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,053
Open past deadline
1,040
Closed
4,958
All time in Manhattan
6,011
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,848

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 245 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 199 days.
  • 88 notices (1.5%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 12.0% of every § 27-2037 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2037 violations

  1. 543 WEST 125 STREET · 13 open
  2. 504 WEST 134 STREET · 12 open
  3. 42 WEST 119 STREET · 11 open
  4. 162 WEST 132 STREET · 11 open
  5. 271 WEST 119 STREET · 10 open
  6. 124 WEST 137 STREET · 10 open
  7. 219 WEST 144 STREET · 10 open
  8. 706 RIVERSIDE DRIVE · 8 open
  9. 181 WEST 135 STREET · 8 open
  10. 102 WEST 137 STREET · 7 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

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

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (6,354 open) · The Bronx (2,765 open) · Queens (2,443 open) · Staten Island (559 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Manhattan rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.