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

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · Queens · written Apr 21, 1967 – Aug 5, 2026

5,098 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 in Queens, 10.3% of the section's citywide record. 2,802 are open right now, 2,800 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,802
Open past deadline
2,800
Closed
2,296
All time in Queens
5,098
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Queens against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Queens took 1,500 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 1,500 days.
  • 160 notices (3.1%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.6%.
  • Queens accounts for 10.3% of every § 27-2040 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2040 violations

  1. 99-20 34 AVENUE · 6 open
  2. 47-36 45 STREET · 6 open
  3. 31-29 105 STREET · 5 open
  4. 1879 PUTNAM AVENUE · 5 open
  5. 27-16 HUMPHREY STREET · 5 open
  6. 466 SENECA AVENUE · 5 open
  7. 108-14 GUY R BREWER BOULEVARD · 5 open
  8. 41-14 40 STREET · 5 open
  9. 47-14 41 STREET · 5 open
  10. 41-20 40 STREET · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens 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 Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (13,382 open) · Manhattan (3,930 open) · The Bronx (3,358 open)

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