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Electrical violations in Brooklyn.

18,708

electrical violations cited in Brooklyn in the trailing 3 years, read from the city’s open-data API at this deploy.

What this means

Defective electrical conditions are life-safety items. Correction typically requires licensed work and certification before the record clears.

In the verified feed

747 case files in Brooklyn right now, 440 carrying ten or more open Class C hazards, median 21 per file. Stamped August 25, 2026, refreshed nightly.

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How a violation reaches this record

Most rows here start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if an inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From that point the violation is searchable on HPD Online by address. It stays on the public record used throughout this site until the agency accepts a correction or the agency closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.

The monthly pattern

Electrical violations HPD has cited in Brooklyn, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months so every month is counted across the same three years. January carries the most at 1,762. June carries the fewest at 1,434.

MonthViolations
January1,762
February1,459
March1,630
April1,562
May1,597
June1,434
July1,664
August1,465
September1,493
October1,548
November1,452
December1,685

By class

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 Brooklyn, HPD has issued 4,462 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 13,004 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 1,680 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

1,680Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
13,004Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
4,462Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 23.3% of the 19,147 electrical violations recorded in Brooklyn.

The certification record

Of 4,462 Class C electrical violations in Brooklyn, 1,116 have ever been certified corrected, 25.0%. Correction took a median of 12 days and a 90th percentile of 21 days. 2,130 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

2.3% of electrical violations in Brooklyn are currently marked Not Complied With, HPD's status once the certify-by date passes without an accepted certification.

After a certification is filed

Filing a certification does not automatically close a case. If HPD reviews the paperwork and finds it insufficient, the case moves to Defect Letter Issued and the owner must refile. If a reinspection later finds the condition still uncorrected despite a certification on file, the case moves to Invalid Certification. A certification accepted after the certify-by date is marked NOV Certified Late rather than on time; one accepted before it is marked NOV Certified On Time. Each of these statuses carries its own page in the status glossary, decoded in plain language.

Against the citywide figure

Brooklyn has recorded 19,147 electrical violations, 34.0% of the citywide total of 56,333. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughElectrical violations
Bronx19,503
Brooklyn19,147
Manhattan9,426
Queens6,228
Staten Island2,029

Where it concentrates

The streets carrying the most open electrical violations in Brooklyn, aggregated by street, never by building or owner:

StreetOpen violations
Ocean Avenue209
Fulton Street137
Eastern Parkway105
Nostrand Avenue101
Linden Boulevard99
St Johns Place91
St Marks Avenue90
Prospect Place82

Open means the current status is neither Violation Dismissed nor Violation Closed.

The status breakdown

Every current status HPD has recorded against an electrical violation in Brooklyn, most common first. Each status name links to its own page in the glossary where one exists.

StatusViolations
Nov Sent Out6,351
Violation Closed5,718
Violation Dismissed5,253
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation663
Not Complied With439
Invalid Certification162
Nov Certified Late139
Civ14 Mailed131
Violation Will Be Reinspected130
Certification Postponment Denied42
Nov Certified On Time40
False Certification29
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation20
Certification Postponment Granted19
Violation Open10
Info Nov Sent Out1

Aggregates only; no building or owner is named here. The monthly, class, certification, street, and status figures above are queried from HPD's own violation record, pulled August 27, 2026, based on 19,147 electrical violation rows in Brooklyn. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.