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Provide Adequate Lighting At Or Near The Outside Of

HPD order 686 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · written Feb 25, 1966 – Aug 5, 2026

HPD has written 43,872 violations under order 686, "Provide Adequate Lighting At Or Near The Outside Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040. 20,536 are open right now, 20,514 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
20,536
Open past deadline
20,514
Closed
23,336
All time
43,872
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 686 is actually enforced

  • 1,592 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 823 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 74 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,011 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 12,381 notices (28.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 7,142 notices (16.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-686 violations by borough

BROOKLYN11,446
MANHATTAN3,831
BRONX3,061
QUEENS2,172
STATEN ISLAND26

Buildings with the most open order-686 violations

  1. 188 ROCKAWAY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  2. 546 WEST 148 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  3. 464 EAST 138 STREET, BRONX · 9 open
  4. 2711 DECATUR AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
  5. 1649 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  6. 1788 3 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 8 open
  7. 1068 MORRIS AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
  8. 3410 BEVERLY ROAD, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  9. 423 EAST 136 STREET, BRONX · 7 open
  10. 62 EAST 3 STREET, MANHATTAN · 7 open

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The law behind this order

Order 686is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is 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 measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2040 Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings · Browse open § 27-2040 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.