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Astoria (East) & Woodside (North)

This planning area in western Queens covers the eastern part of Astoria and the northern part of Woodside. It is mostly apartment territory: of its roughly 17,700 homes, about 58% are in walk-up apartment buildings, about 20% are in elevator buildings and about 15% are in one- and two-family houses, according to the city's PLUTO tax-lot data. The tallest residential buildings reach 15 stories. NYCHA's Woodside Houses development sits inside the area. For the subway, the Steinway Street and 46th Street stations on the Queens Boulevard Line are served by the M and R trains.

Astoria (East) & Woodside (North) has 11,349 open HPD housing violations, 1,893 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,712 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 18th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
11,349
1,893 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,712
638 Class C · 15th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,893 · 17%Class B4,891 · 43%Class A4,565 · 40%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

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

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous638
  • Class B · hazardous680
  • Class A · non-hazardous979

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

Good to know

  • Subway: Steinway St and 46 St stations (M, R)
  • About 17,700 homes; roughly 58% in walk-up buildings
  • NYCHA Woodside Houses is in the area
  • Tallest residential buildings: 15 stories

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

Re-verified 2026-10-12 by independent recompute: PLUTO 26v2 Queens residential lots (unitsres>0) point-in-polygon against the 2020 NTA boundaries (9nt8-h7nd); unit shares by building class (A/B one- and two-family, C walk-up, D elevator, R condo), share of residential lots that are one- or two-family, and max numfloors all matched the stated rounded figures. Subway stations re-matched by point-in-polygon on MTA Subway Stations (39hk-dx4f); LIRR stations checked against the LIRR GTFS stops file; park acreage and location re-checked in Parks Properties (enfh-gkve). Wikipedia facts re-read on the cited articles. Woodside Houses footprint falls inside the NTA in the NYCHA developments layer. Northern Blvd (M, R) station sits just outside the boundary.

Sources

  1. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (data.ny.gov) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. NYCHA Public Housing Developments · New York City Housing Authority (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (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.