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Provide Adequate Lighting For Light Fixture At Ceiling At

HPD order 682 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038 · written Dec 18, 1978 – Jul 17, 2026

HPD has written 1,144 violations under order 682, "Provide Adequate Lighting For Light Fixture At Ceiling At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038. 240 are open right now, 238 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
240
Open past deadline
238
Closed
904
All time
1,144
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 682 is actually enforced

  • 20 notices (1.7%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 5 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.
  • 5 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 83 notices (7.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,144 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 237 notices (20.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-682 violations by borough

BROOKLYN128
BRONX43
MANHATTAN36
QUEENS33

Buildings with the most open order-682 violations

  1. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  2. 400 EAST 88 STREET, MANHATTAN · 4 open
  3. 158 26 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  4. 3155 ROCHAMBEAU AVENUE, BRONX · 3 open
  5. 480 QUINCY STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  6. 506 BROOK AVENUE, BRONX · 3 open
  7. 195 EAST 40 STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  8. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  9. 1799 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  10. 364 87 STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open

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The law behind this order

Order 682is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038, "Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2038 Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings · Browse open § 27-2038 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.