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Provide Adequate Light Of Not Less Than 60 Watts

HPD order 683 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 · written Aug 18, 1967 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 18,496 violations under order 683, "Provide Adequate Light Of Not Less Than 60 Watts", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039. 7,760 are open right now, 7,724 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
7,760
Open past deadline
7,724
Closed
10,736
All time
18,496
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 683 is actually enforced

  • 330 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 69 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 7 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 312 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 8,728 notices (47.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,228 notices (12.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-683 violations by borough

BROOKLYN5,150
QUEENS1,044
BRONX773
MANHATTAN759
STATEN ISLAND34

The law behind this order

Order 683is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, "Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2039 Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility · Browse open § 27-2039 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.