City Council district · Queens
City Council District 30
City Council District 30 is in west-central Queens, covering Maspeth and Middle Village and parts of Glendale, Elmhurst, Rego Park and Ridgewood. The housing is mostly low-rise: in PLUTO tax-lot data, about 50% of its roughly 64,400 residential units are in one- and two-family houses and about 30% are in walk-up apartment buildings, with about 11% in elevator buildings. The M train serves the district at Forest Av, Fresh Pond Rd and Middle Village-Metropolitan Av, and the M and R stop at Woodhaven Blvd and 63 Dr-Rego Park on Queens Boulevard. Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village, about 56 acres, is the largest park, followed by Frank Principe Park and Elmhurst Park.
City Council District 30 has 31,466 open HPD housing violations, 4,548 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 7,965 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 9th most open violations of 14 council districts in Queens. Per apartment it ranks 37th of 51 citywide, at 488.9 open violations per 1,000 homes.
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Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026
- Residential noise4,429
- Heat / hot water2,367
- Unsanitary condition1,099
- Building use684
- Plumbing567
- Rodents468
- Paint / plaster370
- Door / window317
- Water leak249
- Electric241
Source: NYC 311 Service Requests · data as of Oct 15, 2026
- District 21977.8
- District 28926.2
- District 31867.6
- District 27867.5
- District 25624.9
- District 32553.1
- District 22540.5
- District 30488.9
- District 24464.2
- District 29440.9
- District 26400.7
- District 20359.3
- District 23201.6
- District 19199.9
Source: NYC HPD violations and DCP PLUTO · data as of Oct 15, 2026
Good to know
- Subway: M at Forest Av, Fresh Pond Rd and Middle Village-Metropolitan Av; M, R at Woodhaven Blvd and 63 Dr-Rego Park
- About 50% of residential units are in one- and two-family houses (PLUTO)
- About 30% of residential units are in walk-up buildings
- Juniper Valley Park covers about 56 acres (NYC Parks)
- Other parks: Frank Principe Park, Elmhurst Park
Neighborhoods included
Maspeth · Middle Village · Glendale · Elmhurst · Rego Park · Ridgewood
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Re-verified 2026-10-12 by independent fact-check. Neighborhood list matches the neighborhoods block on the council.nyc.gov district page. Housing shares re-queried from PLUTO (Socrata 64uk-42ks, rows updated 2026-08-24): sum(unitsres) grouped by council and first letter of bldgclass (A/B one- and two-family, C walk-up, D elevator, R condo lots); totals and shares match. Subway stations re-checked by point-in-polygon of MTA Subway Stations (data.ny.gov 39hk-dx4f) against the NYC Planning NYC_City_Council_Districts feature service boundary. Park names, acreages and councildistrict values re-checked in NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve, updated 2026-09-16). No crime, safety or demographic claims; no council member named.
Sources
- City Council District 30 · New York City Council (accessed October 12, 2026)
- Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
- MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
- Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks & Recreation (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.