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D26-19.01 Adm Code Provide Adequate Lighting Cellar Thru Out.

HPD order 684 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · written Feb 10, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 3,031 violations under order 684, "D26-19.01 Adm Code Provide Adequate Lighting Cellar Thru Out.", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 934 are open right now, 916 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
934
Open past deadline
916
Closed
2,097
All time
3,031
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 684 is actually enforced

  • 115 notices (3.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 14 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 2 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 18 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,191 notices (39.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 510 notices (16.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-684 violations by borough

BROOKLYN528
MANHATTAN179
BRONX140
QUEENS80
STATEN ISLAND7

Buildings with the most open order-684 violations

  1. 496 EAST 189 STREET, BRONX · 6 open
  2. 490 EAST 189 STREET, BRONX · 5 open
  3. 3395 RESERVOIR OVAL WEST, BRONX · 4 open
  4. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  5. 368 87 STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  6. 60 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  7. 138 WEST 123 STREET, MANHATTAN · 3 open
  8. 58-51 230 STREET, MANHATTAN · 3 open
  9. 176 WEST 137 STREET, MANHATTAN · 3 open
  10. 871 MONTGOMERY STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open

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The law behind this order

Order 684is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings · Browse open § 27-2037 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.