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Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings in Queens

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · Queens · written Apr 9, 1991 – Aug 6, 2026

6,323 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 in Queens, 12.7% of the section's citywide record. 2,443 are open right now, 2,412 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,443
Open past deadline
2,412
Closed
3,880
All time in Queens
6,323
Class C (immediately hazardous)
2,862

Queens against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Queens took 174 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 199 days.
  • 74 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Queens accounts for 12.7% of every § 27-2037 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2037 violations

  1. 1819 GEORGE STREET · 38 open
  2. 41-40 DENMAN STREET · 37 open
  3. 130-25 129 STREET · 24 open
  4. 195-14 HOLLIS AVENUE · 18 open
  5. 60-49 75 AVENUE · 17 open
  6. 67-22 170 STREET · 11 open
  7. 71-38 71 STREET · 11 open
  8. 37-41 94 STREET · 11 open
  9. 75-02 37 AVENUE · 11 open
  10. 69-46 ALMEDA AVENUE · 10 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2037 records in Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (6,354 open) · The Bronx (2,765 open) · Manhattan (1,053 open) · Staten Island (559 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Queens rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.