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D26-19.07 Adm Code Install And Maintain Sufficient Light Or

HPD order 687 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · written Oct 16, 1974 – Jul 27, 2026

HPD has written 5,555 violations under order 687, "D26-19.07 Adm Code Install And Maintain Sufficient Light Or", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040. 2,987 are open right now, 2,984 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,987
Open past deadline
2,984
Closed
2,568
All time
5,555
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 687 is actually enforced

  • 198 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 19 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 81 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 4,136 notices (74.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 499 notices (9.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-687 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,936
QUEENS630
BRONX297
MANHATTAN99
STATEN ISLAND25

Buildings with the most open order-687 violations

  1. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  2. 1893 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  3. 2948 BRIGHTON 4 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  4. 272 86 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  5. 2472 EAST 11 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  6. 3748 LYME AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  7. 404 6 AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  8. 612 EAST 96 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  9. 3744 OCEANIC AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  10. 2135 WEST 11 STREET, BROOKLYN · 4 open

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The law behind this order

Order 687is 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.