Electrical violations in the Bronx.

3.4% of the Bronx’s electrical violations are marked Not Complied With, against 2.7% citywide.

See what is open on one building.

19,483 electrical violations cited in the Bronx over the last three years.

What this means

Electrical defects are a life-safety hazard. The repair usually needs licensed work, and the owner has to certify it before the violation can close.

The Bronx, by category: Heat and hot water, Lead paint, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks. All five boroughs

How an HPD electrical violation gets issued

Most of these violations start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if the inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From then on anyone can look it up on HPD Online by address, and it stays open until HPD accepts a correction or closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.

When Bronx electrical violations are cited, by month

Electrical violations HPD has cited in the Bronx, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. September has the most, 1,878. November has the fewest, 1,428.

Electrical violations by class: A, B and C

HPD sorts every electrical violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In the Bronx, HPD has issued 3,859 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 14,090 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 2,554 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 18.8% of the 20,504 electrical violations recorded in the Bronx.

How often Bronx electrical violations get certified corrected

1,420 of the Bronx’s 3,859 Class C electrical violations have ever been certified corrected, 36.8%. Those certifications came a median of 12 days after the inspection, and 19 days at the 90th percentile. 489 have gone more than a year with no certification at all, 12.7% of the class.

When an inspector goes back and finds the condition still there, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. In the Bronx that is 3.4% of electrical violations.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

A filed certification is not a closed case. HPD reviews the documents, and documents with a defect send the case to Invalid Certification, which means filing again. A reinspection that finds the condition not properly corrected sends it to False Certification instead. The filing date sets the rest: filed by the certify-by date, the violation shows NOV Certified On Time; filed after it, NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Defect Letter Issued is the inspector seeing the condition corrected while HPD still waits on documents. The status glossary explains each one.

The Bronx against the rest of New York City

Citywide, HPD has written 59,210 electrical violations. 20,504 of them are in the Bronx, 34.6%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.

Which Bronx streets carry the most open electrical violations

Grouped by street, this is where the Bronx’s open electrical violations sit.

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Every HPD status on Bronx electrical violations

The status tells you what happened to an electrical violation. Here is how they break down in the Bronx, most common first; the glossary explains each.

Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 20,504 electrical violations in the Bronx; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.