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Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · Manhattan · written Feb 25, 1966 – Aug 5, 2026

9,075 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 in Manhattan, 18.4% of the section's citywide record. 3,930 are open right now, 3,927 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
3,930
Open past deadline
3,927
Closed
5,145
All time in Manhattan
9,075
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 1,500 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 1,500 days.
  • 318 notices (3.5%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.6%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 18.4% of every § 27-2040 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2040 violations

  1. 546 WEST 148 STREET · 9 open
  2. 209 WEST 137 STREET · 8 open
  3. 1788 3 AVENUE · 8 open
  4. 62 EAST 3 STREET · 7 open
  5. 548 WEST 148 STREET · 7 open
  6. N E C O 115 ST 101 AVE · 7 open
  7. 304 EAST 91 STREET · 6 open
  8. 138 WEST 131 STREET · 6 open
  9. 183 EAST 104 STREET · 6 open
  10. 366 EAST 8 STREET · 6 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for 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 full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2040 Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2040 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (13,382 open) · The Bronx (3,358 open) · Queens (2,802 open)

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