Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings in Queens

Queens against the citywide record

• The median repair in Queens took 1,500 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 987 days.
• 14 notices (2.9%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.3%.
• Queens accounts for 17.2% of every § 27-2038 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2038 violations

1. 60-03 ELIOT AVENUE · 4 open
2. 98-40 212 STREET · 4 open
3. 202-02 109 AVENUE · 4 open
4. 71-19 72 STREET · 3 open
5. 145-40 TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WAY · 3 open
6. 13-62 GIPSON STREET · 3 open
7. 92-28 LAMONT AVENUE · 3 open
8. 90-40 185 STREET · 2 open
9. 82-11 31 AVENUE · 2 open
10. 69-27 MYRTLE AVENUE · 2 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038, "Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2038 Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2038 records in Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (757 open) · The Bronx (153 open)

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