NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2065 · cited Oct 3, 1961 – Jul 17, 2026
1,070 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2065, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 496 are still open, 477 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2065 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,240 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 339 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 258 | |
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| MANHATTAN | 150 | |
| QUEENS | 57 | |
| BRONX | 26 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 5 |
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§ 27-2065 Light and ventilation of water closet compartments.
a. In every water closet compartment, bathroom and general toilet room one of the following requirements for light and ventilation shall be met: (1)There shall be a window opening upon a street, yard, court, partially enclosed balcony or space above a setback, on an offset or recess which may be less than six feet in width. Every such window shall be at least three square feet in area and one-half of its area shall open. (2)If the water closet compartment, bathroom or general toilet room is either located on the top story or is underneath the bottom of a lawful shaft or court, it may be lighted and ventilated by a skylight in the roof. Such skylight shall contain three square feet of glazed area and shall open. (3)There shall be a system of mechanical ventilation, approved for construction and arrangement by the department. In a multiple dwelling such system of ventilation shall be maintained and operated continuously to provide at least four changes per hour of the air volume of each water closet, bathroom or general toilet room daily from six o'clock in the morning until midnight in all residential parts of a dwelling and from seven o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at night in any nonresidental parts of a dwelling. In a private dwelling the approved system of mechanical ventilation may be switch-operated.
b. Nothing in this section shall require any change to be made in the lighting or ventilation of water closets, bathrooms, or general toilet rooms in any portion of any old law tenement or any converted dwelling if such lighting or ventilation was lawful on July first, nineteen hundred sixty-one and in one or two family dwellings if such lighting or ventilation was lawful on August second, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2065, "Light and ventilation of water closet compartments", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. In every water closet compartment, bathroom and general toilet room one of the following requirements for light and ventilation shall be met: (1)There shall be a window opening upon a street, yard, court, partially enclosed balcony or space above a setback, on an offset or recess which may be less than six feet in width. Every such window shall be at least three square feet in area and one-half of its area shall open. (2)If the water closet compartment, bathroom or general toilet room is either located on the top story or is underneath the bottom of a lawful shaft or court, it may be lighted and ventilated by a skylight in the roof. Such skylight shall contain three square feet of glazed area and shall open. (3)There shall be a system of mechanical ventilation, approved for construction and arrangement by the department. In a multiple dwelling such system of ventilation shall be maintained and operated continuously to provide at least four changes per hour of the air volume of each water closet, bathroom or general toilet room daily from six o'clock in the morning until midnight in all residential parts of a dwelling and from seven o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at night in any nonresidental parts of a dwelling. In a private dwelling the approved system of mechanical ventilation may be switch-operated.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 1,070 § 27-2065 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 339 § 27-2065 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,240 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
496 § 27-2065 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 477 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
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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