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Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service

HPD order 688 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · written Jul 11, 2012 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 36,473 violations under order 688, "Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 7,243 are open right now, 7,095 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
7,243
Open past deadline
7,095
Closed
29,230
All time
36,473
Class C (immediately hazardous)
12,844

How order 688 is actually enforced

  • 446 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 159 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 11 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 190 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 331 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,758 notices (24.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-688 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,602
BRONX1,844
MANHATTAN858
QUEENS821
STATEN ISLAND118

The law behind this order

Order 688is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings · Browse open § 27-2037 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.