Electrical violations in Brooklyn.

HPD has written 20,183 electrical violations in Brooklyn, 34.1% of the city’s total.

See what is open on one building.

19,012 electrical violations cited in Brooklyn 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.

Brooklyn, 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 Brooklyn electrical violations are cited, by month

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 has the most, 1,762. June has the fewest, 1,434.

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 Brooklyn, HPD has issued 4,661 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 13,733 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 1,788 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 23.1% of the 20,183 electrical violations recorded in Brooklyn.

How often Brooklyn electrical violations get certified corrected

Brooklyn carries 4,661 Class C electrical violations, and 753 of them have stood open more than a year with no certification on file. 1,165 have been certified corrected at some point, 25.0%, at a median of 12 days from inspection and 21 days at the 90th percentile.

When an inspector goes back and finds the condition still there, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. In Brooklyn that is 2.2% of electrical violations.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

Filing does not end the matter. The certify-by date decides whether the violation shows NOV Certified On Time or NOV Certified Late, and HPD does not accept a late one. If the documents have a defect, the case moves to Invalid Certification and the owner files again. If a reinspection contradicts it, the case moves to False Certification. Defect Letter Issued means an inspector saw the condition corrected and HPD is waiting on documents. The status glossary has all of them.

Brooklyn against the rest of New York City

Citywide, HPD has written 59,210 electrical violations. 20,183 of them are in Brooklyn, 34.1%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.

Which Brooklyn streets carry the most open electrical violations

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

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Every HPD status on Brooklyn electrical violations

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

Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 20,183 electrical violations in Brooklyn; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.