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Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 · Manhattan · written Apr 19, 1972 – Aug 5, 2026

2,291 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 in Manhattan, 12.1% of the section's citywide record. 774 are open right now, 766 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
774
Open past deadline
766
Closed
1,517
All time in Manhattan
2,291
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 1,434 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 1,500 days.
  • 35 notices (1.5%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.8%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 12.1% of every § 27-2039 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2039 violations

  1. 102 WEST 137 STREET · 9 open
  2. 254 3 AVENUE · 6 open
  3. 110 WEST 137 STREET · 5 open
  4. 255 WEST 113 STREET · 5 open
  5. 1854 2 AVENUE · 5 open
  6. 304 EAST 126 STREET · 5 open
  7. 363 WEST 126 STREET · 5 open
  8. 406 WEST 25 STREET · 4 open
  9. 103 WAVERLY PLACE · 4 open
  10. 34 EAST 64 STREET · 4 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, "Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2039 Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility citywide · Browse open § 27-2039 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (5,163 open) · The Bronx (817 open) · Queens (1,055 open)

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