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Water leaks violations in Queens.

24,890

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

What this means

Active leaks cascade into mold, electrical, and structural items if left open. Leak violations frequently recur across units of the same building on the record.

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

Water leaks 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. October carries the most at 2,347. November carries the fewest at 1,766.

MonthViolations
January2,209
February1,785
March2,266
April2,226
May2,143
June1,909
July1,931
August2,081
September2,277
October2,347
November1,766
December1,808

By class

HPD sorts every water leaks 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 2,560 Class C water leaks violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 17,709 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 5,163 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

5,163Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
17,709Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
2,560Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 10.1% of the 25,432 water leaks violations recorded in Queens.

The certification record

Of 2,560 Class C water leaks violations in Queens, 552 have ever been certified corrected, 21.6%. Correction took a median of 13 days and a 90th percentile of 30 days. 1,337 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

2.9% of water leaks 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 25,432 water leaks violations, 12.2% of the citywide total of 208,915. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughWater leaks violations
Bronx77,625
Brooklyn66,289
Manhattan35,944
Queens25,432
Staten Island3,625

Where it concentrates

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

StreetOpen violations
34 Avenue139
37 Avenue136
41 Avenue116
35 Avenue112
Jamaica Avenue103
Sanford Avenue101
Queens Boulevard94
153 Street91

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

The status breakdown

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

StatusViolations
Nov Sent Out8,928
Violation Closed7,033
Violation Dismissed6,634
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation1,051
Not Complied With740
Invalid Certification309
Nov Certified Late194
Civ14 Mailed167
Violation Will Be Reinspected112
Certification Postponment Denied86
Nov Certified On Time49
Violation Open33
False Certification29
Certification Postponment Granted28
Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant22
Defect Letter Issued12
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation5

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 25,432 water leaks violation rows in Queens. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.