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Properly Repair And Abate Unsafe Electric Wiring Condition Consisting

HPD order 689 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Jul 11, 2012 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 40,402 violations under order 689, "Properly Repair And Abate Unsafe Electric Wiring Condition Consisting", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 6,785 are open right now, 6,609 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
6,785
Open past deadline
6,609
Closed
33,617
All time
40,402
Class C (immediately hazardous)
10,635

How order 689 is actually enforced

  • 616 notices (1.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 206 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 28 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 202 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 487 notices (1.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 9,980 notices (24.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-689 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,949
BRONX1,569
MANHATTAN1,507
QUEENS709
STATEN ISLAND51

The law behind this order

Order 689is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.