Heat and hot water violations in Queens.
20.5% of Queens’ Class C heat and hot water violations have sat open more than a year with nothing filed. Citywide it is 12.9%.
See what is open on one building.
17,773 heat and hot water violations cited in Queens 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.
If you own the building. Time does not clear an HPD heat and hot water violation. It stays open until a certification is filed and accepted or HPD closes it, and a sale, a refinance or a permit review reads the building’s history. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Queens for a living. 3,601 Class C heat and hot water violations here have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.
Our current feed holds 482 Queens case files across all categories, and 251 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 12. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C heat and hot water violations here.
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If you rent here. These are conditions an inspector confirmed. HPD’s data does not show whether they were fixed, only whether the owner ever certified a repair. What each status means.
Queens, 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 Queens heat and hot water violations are cited, by month
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 has the most, 3,292. July has the fewest, 575.
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 Queens, HPD has issued 17,538 Class C heat and hot water violations, immediately hazardous, with no time to correct before civil penalties can apply. It has issued 573 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 235 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.
Class C is 95.6% of the 18,346 heat and hot water violations recorded in Queens.
How often Queens heat and hot water violations get certified corrected
The certification rate on Queens’ Class C heat and hot water violations is 34.3%: 6,021 filings against 17,538 violations issued. Half of those filings came within 10 days of the inspection and nine in ten within 18. 3,601 violations, 20.5%, are more than a year old 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 1.8% of Queens’ 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
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
Queens has 18,346 of the city’s 161,938 heat and hot water violations, 11.3%. Here is every borough’s total for the same category.
| Borough | Heat and hot water violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 57,319 |
| Brooklyn | 48,402 |
| Manhattan | 35,406 |
| Queens | 18,346 |
| Staten Island | 2,465 |
Which Queens streets carry the most open heat and hot water violations
These are the Queens streets carrying the most open heat and hot water violations.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Jamaica Avenue | 111 |
| Beach 66 Street | 81 |
| 72 Road | 72 |
| Cherry Avenue | 68 |
| Sanford Avenue | 66 |
| 101 Avenue | 65 |
| George Street | 62 |
| Linden Boulevard | 61 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Queens buildings with open heat and hot water violations
12 of the 1,074 Queens 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.
- 28-15 34 Street, Queens 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
- 25-90 35 Street, Queens 6 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 31-38 36 Street, Queens 3 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 73-06 150 Street, Queens 22 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 143-36 229 Street, Queens 7 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 310 Beach 32 Street, Queens 7 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 95-15 Brisbin Street, Queens 2 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 141-18 Cherry Avenue, Queens 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
- 62-41 Forest Avenue, Queens 4 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 754 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens 1 open Class C heat and hot water violation
- 141-46 Pershing Crescent, Queens 4 open Class C heat and hot water violations
- 102-10 Queens Boulevard, Queens 2 open Class C heat and hot water violations
Every HPD status on Queens heat and hot water violations
Every current status HPD has given a heat and hot water violation in Queens, most common first. Each name links to its own page in the glossary.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Queens heat and hot water violations, read from our copy of HPD's Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (NYC Open Data, wvxf-dwi5). Figures through October 17, 2026, read on October 19, 2026. https://violationscout.com/nyc/queens-heat-hot-water
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches heat and hot water in Queens; the three-year count at the top is read from the city's open-data API when the page is built. Source: NYC Open Data. How every figure here is counted: /methodology.
The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 18,346 heat and hot water violations in Queens. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.