Electrical violations in Manhattan.

Manhattan certifies 35.6% of its Class C electrical violations. Citywide the rate is 29.0%.

See what is open on one building.

9,242 electrical violations cited in Manhattan 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.

Manhattan, 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 Manhattan electrical violations are cited, by month

Electrical violations HPD has cited in Manhattan, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. April has the most, 900. November has the fewest, 616.

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 Manhattan, HPD has issued 2,039 Class C electrical violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 6,675 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 918 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

Class C is 21.2% of the 9,632 electrical violations recorded in Manhattan.

How often Manhattan electrical violations get certified corrected

A certification is the owner’s statement that the repair is done, and in Manhattan one has been filed on 35.6% of the 2,039 Class C electrical violations. The median wait from inspection to that filing is 12 days; nine in ten land inside 20. The other side of the number: 248 violations open past a year with nothing filed.

Not Complied With is HPD’s status for a violation whose certify-by date came and went without an accepted certification. 3.1% of electrical violations in Manhattan carry it.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

What happens next depends on the date and the review. A certification filed by the certify-by date shows as on time, one filed after it as late. HPD can then find the paperwork insufficient, which is Defect Letter Issued and a second filing, or send an inspector who finds the condition still there, which is Invalid Certification. Each of those has its own page in the glossary.

Manhattan against the rest of New York City

Citywide, HPD has written 57,868 electrical violations. 9,632 of them are in Manhattan, 16.6%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.

Which Manhattan streets carry the most open electrical violations

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

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Every HPD status on Manhattan electrical violations

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

Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 9,632 electrical violations in Manhattan; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.