New York City Handyman Work Order Charges

Handyman Work Order (HWO) charges detail emergency repair work conducted by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) when property owners fail to address hazardous conditions. The dataset includes columns for charges, locations, and work descriptions, sourced from the HPD Charge Data collection. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic patterns of emergency repairs using Boro, NTA, Census Tract, and Community Board columns.
• Model relationships between repair types (WorkTypeGeneral, HWODescription) and associated costs (ChargeAmount, HWOApprovedAmount).
• Track the administrative and financial lifecycle of work orders via LifeCycle, HWOCreateDate, and DateTransferDoF fields.
• Assess property-specific intervention history by joining on BBL (Borough-Block-Lot) or BIN (Building Identification Number).

Strengths

• Includes precise geospatial identifiers like Latitude, Longitude, BBL, and BIN for location analysis.
• Captures multiple administrative dimensions including financial (ChargeAmount, AdminFee), temporal (HWOCreateDate), and jurisdictional (Council District, Zip).

Limitations

• Unknown row count prevents assessment of statistical significance for analysis.
• Sample data is unavailable, hindering preliminary inspection of data distributions and null values.

Provenance

Source

New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

Collection Method

Work orders carried out by agency staff in response to code violations.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA.