Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 (repealed) · cited Aug 18, 1967 – Aug 6, 2026

18,880 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, which is 0.2% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 7,844 are still open, 7,805 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

7,844

Open past deadline

7,805

Closed

11,036

All time

18,880

Share of attributed

0.2%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 27-2039 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 27-2039 notice is 35 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 8,665 closed violations.

342 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
71 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 7 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
312 repairs were certified after the deadline.
8,777 notices (46.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
2,333 notices (12.4%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 27-2039 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

Provide Adequate Light Of Not Less Than 60 Watts · 18,497 · order 683
Provide And Maintain A Light Directly Over The Mail · 383 · order 685

Open § 27-2039 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		5,163
QUEENS		1,055
BRONX		817
MANHATTAN		774
STATEN ISLAND		35

Buildings with the most open § 27-2039 violations

365 STATE STREET, BROOKLYN · 12 open
133 MAC DONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
102 WEST 137 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
1466 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN · 9 open
63-69 110 STREET, QUEENS · 8 open
1221 MORRISON AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
423 THROOP AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
1256 NOBLE AVENUE, BRONX · 7 open
59 VAN SICKLEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open

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Text of NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039

This section has been repealed. The violations counted above were issued while it was in force, or cite it in their notice text.

§ 27-2039 Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2010/052.

Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication

Questions people ask about § 27-2039

What is a § 27-2039 violation?

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, "Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2010/052.

How long does an owner have to fix a § 27-2039 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 18,880 § 27-2039 notices, the median legal deadline was 35 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 27-2039 violation?

Measured across 8,665 § 27-2039 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 35 days.

How many § 27-2039 violations are open in NYC right now?

7,844 § 27-2039 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 7,805 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.

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