Electrical violations on Staten Island.
A Class C electrical violation on Staten Island takes a median of 14 days to certify. Citywide the median is 12.
See what is open on one building.
2,144 electrical violations cited on Staten Island 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.
If you own the building. An open electrical violation is a fact about the building that outlasts whoever owns it. It shows at sale and at refinance until HPD accepts a certification, dismisses it or closes it on review. Of those, certification is the one an owner controls. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Staten Island for a living. 33 Class C electrical violations on Staten Island are over a year old and carry no certification. Whatever is happening on site, nothing has been filed with HPD.
Our current feed holds 51 Staten Island case files across all categories, and 23 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C electrical violations here.
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If you rent here. Each of these was confirmed by an HPD inspector. A certification means the owner filed paperwork, not that anyone came back to look at the work. What each status means.
Staten Island, 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 Staten Island electrical violations are cited, by month
Electrical violations HPD has cited on Staten Island, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. June has the most, 299. November has the fewest, 108.
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. On Staten Island, HPD has issued 261 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 1,410 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 557 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.
Class C is 11.7% of the 2,228 electrical violations recorded on Staten Island.
How often Staten Island electrical violations get certified corrected
Two numbers sum up Staten Island on Class C electrical. One is 39, the violations certified corrected out of 261, 14.9%, filed at a median of 14 days and a 90th percentile of 29. The other is 33, the violations past a year with no certification at all.
When an inspector goes back and finds the condition still there, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. On Staten Island that is 2.1% of electrical violations.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
Two things decide the next status: the certify-by date and HPD’s review. Filed inside the date, a certification shows NOV Certified On Time; filed outside it, NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Documents with a defect become Invalid Certification, to be filed again. A certification an inspector contradicts becomes False Certification. An inspector who sees the fix while documents are missing leaves Defect Letter Issued. Every one of those has a page in the glossary.
Staten Island against the rest of New York City
Citywide, HPD has written 59,210 electrical violations. 2,228 of them are on Staten Island, 3.8%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.
Which Staten Island streets carry the most open electrical violations
Grouped by street, this is where Staten Island’s open electrical violations sit.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Park Hill Avenue | 67 |
| Richmond Terrace | 49 |
| St Marks Place | 47 |
| Victory Boulevard | 35 |
| Kinghorn Street | 31 |
| Heberton Avenue | 27 |
| Jersey Street | 24 |
| Seaview Avenue | 20 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Every HPD status on Staten Island electrical violations
The status tells you what happened to an electrical violation. Here is how they break down on Staten Island, most common first; the glossary explains each.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Staten Island electrical 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/staten-island-electrical
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches electrical on Staten Island; 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.
Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 2,228 electrical violations on Staten Island; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.