Heat and hot water violations in Manhattan.

A Class C heat and hot water violation in Manhattan takes a median of 9 days to certify. Citywide the median is 9.

See what is open on one building.

34,294 heat and hot water violations cited in Manhattan over the last three years.

What this means

No heat in winter, or no hot water at any time of year, is an immediately hazardous Class C condition. The owner has to restore service and certify the repair with HPD, and the violation stays open until HPD accepts that certification or closes the case.

Manhattan, by category: Lead paint, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs

How an HPD heat and hot water 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 Manhattan heat and hot water violations are cited, by month

Heat and hot water violations HPD has cited in Manhattan, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. January has the most, 6,202. August has the fewest, 1,141.

Heat and hot water violations by class: A, B and C

HPD sorts every heat and hot water violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Manhattan, HPD has issued 32,976 Class C heat and hot water violations, immediately hazardous, with no time to correct before civil penalties can apply. It has issued 1,511 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 919 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 93.1% of the 35,406 heat and hot water violations recorded in Manhattan.

How often Manhattan heat and hot water violations get certified corrected

A certification is the owner’s statement that the repair is done, and in Manhattan one has been filed on 51.3% of the 32,976 Class C heat and hot water violations. The median wait from inspection to that filing is 9 days; nine in ten land inside 15. The other side of the number: 3,368 violations open past a year with nothing filed.

Not Complied With is HPD’s record of a failed reinspection: the inspector went back and the condition was still there. It sits on 2.1% of Manhattan’s heat and hot water violations.

HPD's correction table gives no time to correct a Class C heat or hot water violation before civil penalties can apply, and the notice sets a later date to certify the repair. The heat violation guide shows how long certification actually takes against that date, and where cases stop.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

What happens next depends on the date and the review. A certification filed by the certify-by date shows as on time, one filed after it as late, and HPD does not accept a late one. HPD can then find a defect in the documents, which is Invalid Certification and a second filing, or send an inspector who finds the condition not properly corrected, which is False Certification. When an inspector sees the condition corrected but documents are missing, the status is Defect Letter Issued. Each of those has its own page in the glossary.

Manhattan against the rest of New York City

Manhattan has 35,406 of the city’s 161,938 heat and hot water violations, 21.9%. Here is every borough’s total for the same category.

Which Manhattan streets carry the most open heat and hot water violations

These are the Manhattan streets carrying the most open heat and hot water violations.

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Manhattan buildings with open heat and hot water violations

12 of the 888 Manhattan buildings with open heat and hot water violations and a page here, a different 12 each week, listed by street. Each count covers heat and hot water violations only, counted on October 17, 2026.

• 217 Avenue A, Manhattan 5 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 29 East 2 Street, Manhattan 2 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 531 East 5 Street, Manhattan 7 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 331 Edgecombe Avenue, Manhattan 4 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 153 Norfolk Street, Manhattan 3 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 45 Wadsworth Terrace, Manhattan 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
• 103 West 72 Street, Manhattan 8 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 164 West 75 Street, Manhattan 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
• 138 West 140 Street, Manhattan 2 open Class C heat and hot water violations
• 542 West 142 Street, Manhattan 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
• 705 West 170 Street, Manhattan 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
• 560 West 174 Street, Manhattan 3 open Class C heat and hot water violations

Every HPD status on Manhattan heat and hot water violations

Every current status HPD has given a heat and hot water violation in Manhattan, most common first. Each name links to its own page in the glossary.

The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 35,406 heat and hot water violations in Manhattan. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.