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Provide Adequate Light Of Not Less Than 60 Watts

HPD order 683 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 · written Aug 18, 1967 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 18,497 violations under order 683, "Provide Adequate Light Of Not Less Than 60 Watts", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039. 7,759 are open right now, 7,723 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
7,759
Open past deadline
7,723
Closed
10,738
All time
18,497
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 683 is actually enforced

  • 332 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 69 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.
  • 8,731 notices (47.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,230 notices (12.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-683 violations by borough

BROOKLYN5,150
QUEENS1,044
BRONX773
MANHATTAN758
STATEN ISLAND34

Buildings with the most open order-683 violations

  1. 365 STATE STREET, BROOKLYN · 12 open
  2. 133 MAC DONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  3. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  4. 102 WEST 137 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  5. 1466 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  6. 1221 MORRISON AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
  7. 63-69 110 STREET, QUEENS · 7 open
  8. 423 THROOP AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  9. 1256 NOBLE AVENUE, BRONX · 7 open
  10. 59 VAN SICKLEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open

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The law behind this order

Order 683is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, "Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

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