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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 6, 2026

HPD has written 36,499 violations under order 688, "Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 7,241 are open right now, 7,082 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
7,241
Open past deadline
7,082
Closed
29,258
All time
36,499
Class C (immediately hazardous)
12,858

How order 688 is actually enforced

  • 443 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 157 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.
  • 334 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,763 notices (24.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-688 violations by borough

BROOKLYN3,603
BRONX1,838
MANHATTAN860
QUEENS822
STATEN ISLAND118

Buildings with the most open order-688 violations

  1. 1819 GEORGE STREET, QUEENS · 37 open
  2. 41-40 DENMAN STREET, QUEENS · 37 open
  3. 506 BROOK AVENUE, BRONX · 27 open
  4. 160 HEBERTON AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 27 open
  5. 621 WILLOUGHBY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 25 open
  6. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 24 open
  7. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  8. 1349 PROSPECT AVENUE, BRONX · 21 open
  9. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 18 open
  10. 126 BERKELEY PLACE, BROOKLYN · 17 open

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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 7, 2026.