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D26-19.07 Adm Code Install And Maintain Sufficient Light Or

HPD order 687 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · written Oct 16, 1974 – Jul 27, 2026

HPD has written 5,555 violations under order 687, "D26-19.07 Adm Code Install And Maintain Sufficient Light Or", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040. 2,988 are open right now, 2,985 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,988
Open past deadline
2,985
Closed
2,567
All time
5,555
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 687 is actually enforced

  • 198 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 19 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 81 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 4,136 notices (74.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 499 notices (9.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-687 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,937
QUEENS630
BRONX297
MANHATTAN99
STATEN ISLAND25

The law behind this order

Order 687is 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.