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Heat and hot water violations in Queens.

17,723

heat and hot water violations cited in Queens in the trailing 3 years, read from the city’s open-data API at this deploy.

What this means

No heat in winter and no hot water year-round are immediately hazardous Class C conditions. The owner must restore service and certify the correction; the violation stays on the record until the agency accepts it.

In the verified feed

436 case files in Queens right now, 240 carrying ten or more open Class C hazards, median 18 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

Heat and hot water 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 carries the most at 3,292. August carries the fewest at 558.

MonthViolations
January3,292
February2,303
March1,691
April1,174
May777
June649
July575
August558
September746
October1,038
November2,184
December2,742

By class

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 Queens, HPD has issued 17,125 Class C heat and hot water violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 549 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 226 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

226Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
549Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
17,125Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 95.7% of the 17,900 heat and hot water violations recorded in Queens.

The certification record

Of 17,125 Class C heat and hot water violations in Queens, 5,900 have ever been certified corrected, 34.5%. Correction took a median of 10 days and a 90th percentile of 18 days. 7,312 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

1.7% of heat and hot water violations in Queens 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

Queens has recorded 17,900 heat and hot water violations, 11.4% of the citywide total of 157,174. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughHeat and hot water violations
Bronx55,679
Brooklyn46,793
Manhattan34,392
Queens17,900
Staten Island2,410

Where it concentrates

The streets carrying the most open heat and hot water violations in Queens, aggregated by street, never by building or owner:

StreetOpen violations
Jamaica Avenue90
72 Road89
73 Avenue80
Beach 66 Street80
Cherry Avenue68
Sanford Avenue67
Linden Boulevard63
101 Avenue60

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

The status breakdown

Every current status HPD has recorded against a heat and hot water violation in Queens, most common first. Each status name links to its own page in the glossary where one exists.

StatusViolations
Violation Closed6,116
Nov Sent Out5,766
Violation Dismissed4,530
Nov Certified Late390
Invalid Certification381
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation305
Not Complied With296
Violation Will Be Reinspected42
Civ14 Mailed20
Nov Certified On Time20
Certification Postponment Denied17
Violation Open9
False Certification5
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation2
Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant1

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 17,900 heat and hot water violation rows in Queens. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.