Electrical violations in Queens.

22.5% of Queens’ Class C electrical violations have sat open more than a year with nothing filed. Citywide it is 15.3%.

See what is open on one building.

6,151 electrical violations cited in Queens 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.

Queens, 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 Queens electrical violations are cited, by month

Electrical violations HPD has cited in Queens, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. January has the most, 561. April has the fewest, 451.

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 Queens, HPD has issued 1,715 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 3,951 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 818 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 26.4% of the 6,484 electrical violations recorded in Queens.

How often Queens electrical violations get certified corrected

The certification rate on Queens’ Class C electrical violations is 17.0%: 291 filings against 1,715 violations issued. Half of those filings came within 11 days of the inspection and nine in ten within 21. 386 violations, 22.5%, are more than a year old with nothing filed.

Not Complied With is HPD’s status for a violation a reinspection found uncorrected. 1.7% of electrical violations in Queens carry it.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

HPD reads the certification before anything closes. Documents with a defect come back as Invalid Certification and have to be filed again. A reinspection that finds the cited condition not properly corrected comes back as False Certification, the worse of the two. A filing made inside the certify-by date shows NOV Certified On Time, and one made outside it NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Defect Letter Issued is the reverse case: the inspector saw the fix, and the documents are what is missing. The glossary covers each status.

Queens against the rest of New York City

Citywide, HPD has written 59,210 electrical violations. 6,484 of them are in Queens, 11.0%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.

Which Queens streets carry the most open electrical violations

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

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Every HPD status on Queens electrical violations

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

Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 6,484 electrical violations in Queens; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.