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Queens Community District 14

Queens Community District 14 covers the Rockaway peninsula, from Far Rockaway, Bayswater and Edgemere through Arverne, Rockaway Park, Belle Harbor and Neponsit to Breezy Point, plus Broad Channel in Jamaica Bay. Its roughly 50,000 homes are split between houses and apartment towers: in PLUTO tax-lot data about 39% are in one- and two-family houses and 40% in elevator buildings. NYCHA developments include Ocean Bay Apartments, Hammel, Redfern and Carleton Manor. The A train crosses Jamaica Bay via Broad Channel and runs to Far Rockaway-Mott Av, with the S shuttle to Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St; the Long Island Rail Road stops at Far Rockaway. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk runs along the ocean side.

Queens Community District 14 has 40,327 open HPD housing violations, 6,699 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 10,535 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 5th most open violations of 14 community districts in Queens. Per apartment it ranks 24th of 59 citywide, at 805.8 open violations per 1,000 homes.

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Open HPD violations
40,327
6,699 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
10,535
2,876 Class C · 6th in Queens
Residential units
50K
15,038 tax lots
Open violations per 1,000 homes
805.8
City median 760.6
Heat complaints this season
55
54 by this date last season
Average year built
1955
Lots with a known year
Rent-stabilized units (2024)
10K
116 buildings · 20% of homes
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,699 · 17%Class B20,275 · 50%Class A13,353 · 33%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

What residents report to 311
Housing-related 311 complaints, last 12 months
  • Residential noise4,698
  • Heat / hot water2,954
  • Unsanitary condition1,857
  • Plumbing1,152
  • Paint / plaster841
  • Door / window712
  • Water leak505
  • Electric479
  • Appliance385
  • General repairs381

Source: NYC 311 Service Requests · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Open violations per 1,000 homes: Queens community districts
Queens Community District 14 highlighted

Source: NYC HPD violations and DCP PLUTO · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • Subway: A to Far Rockaway-Mott Av; A and S shuttle from Broad Channel to Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St
  • LIRR station: Far Rockaway
  • About 50,000 homes: roughly 39% one- and two-family and 40% in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • NYCHA: Ocean Bay Apartments (Bayside and Oceanside), Hammel, Redfern, Beach 41st St-Beach Channel Dr, Carleton Manor
  • Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk and Rockaway Community Park (about 255 acres)

Neighborhoods included

Arverne · Bayswater · Belle Harbor · Breezy Point · Broad Channel · Edgemere · Far Rockaway · Hammels · Neponsit · Rockaway Park · The Rockaways · Roxbury · Seaside · Somerville

Before you rent or buy here

Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Neighborhood list from the NYC Planning Community Profiles app (neighborhood names are not official boundaries and some span districts). Housing mix = share of residential units by PLUTO building class (A/B one- and two-family, C walk-up incl. three-family and garden apartments, D elevator, R condo), queried by cd. Subway/SIR stations placed by point-in-polygon of MTA station coordinates (data.ny.gov 39hk-dx4f) against NYC Community Districts boundaries (data.cityofnewyork.us 5crt-au7u); LIRR stations from the MTA LIRR GTFS stops file. Park names and acreage from NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve) communityboard field; NYCHA development names and apartment counts from the NYCHA Development Data Book (data.cityofnewyork.us evjd-dqpz, data as of 1/1/2025). Re-verified 2026-10-12 by independent fact-check: neighborhood list matches the NYC Planning Community Profiles app exactly; PLUTO residential-unit totals and building-class shares re-queried by cd (64uk-42ks) and rounded to whole percent; subway/SIR stations re-placed by point-in-polygon against 5crt-au7u and LIRR stations against the MTA LIRR GTFS feed; park names, acreage and community-board assignments re-queried from enfh-gkve; NYCHA names and counts re-queried from evjd-dqpz where cited; max building height from PLUTO numfloors where cited.

Sources

  1. NYC Community District Profiles: Queens Community District 14 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (stations, routes and coordinates; includes Staten Island Railway) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.