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Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service

HPD order 988 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · written Jul 11, 2012Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 10,342 violations under order 988, "Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 4,960 are open right now, 4,932 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,960
Open past deadline
4,932
Closed
5,382
All time
10,342
Class C (immediately hazardous)
5,125

How order 988 is actually enforced

  • 63 notices (0.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 76 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 72 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 172 notices (1.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,540 notices (14.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-988 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,206
QUEENS1,538
BRONX781
STATEN ISLAND433
MANHATTAN2

Buildings with the most open order-988 violations

  1. 1242 BUSHWICK AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 39 open
  2. 2930 WILSON AVENUE, BRONX · 34 open
  3. 385 ESSEX STREET, BROOKLYN · 31 open
  4. 675 EAST 103 STREET, BROOKLYN · 25 open
  5. 130-25 129 STREET, QUEENS · 24 open
  6. 2455 BEDFORD AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 21 open
  7. 1200 EAST 95 STREET, BROOKLYN · 20 open
  8. 2089 PACIFIC STREET, BROOKLYN · 20 open
  9. 601 EAST 22 STREET, BROOKLYN · 19 open
  10. 2406 FRISBY AVENUE, BRONX · 19 open

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The law behind this order

Order 988is 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.