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Provide Adequate Lighting At Or Near The Outside Of

HPD order 686 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · written Feb 25, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 43,872 violations under order 686, "Provide Adequate Lighting At Or Near The Outside Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040. 20,543 are open right now, 20,521 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
20,543
Open past deadline
20,521
Closed
23,329
All time
43,872
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 686 is actually enforced

  • 1,591 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 823 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 74 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,011 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 12,374 notices (28.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 7,142 notices (16.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-686 violations by borough

BROOKLYN11,449
MANHATTAN3,831
BRONX3,065
QUEENS2,172
STATEN ISLAND26

The law behind this order

Order 686is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040, "Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2040 Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings · Browse open § 27-2040 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.