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Astoria North, Ditmars & Steinway

This area covers northern Astoria in northwestern Queens. The western section near Ditmars Boulevard is known as Ditmars, and the eastern end, along Steinway Street, is sometimes called Steinway. Housing is a mix of walk-up apartment buildings, which hold about 49% of its roughly 22,000 homes, and one- and two-family houses, which hold about 33% and make up about 65% of residential lots. Condominiums account for about 11% of homes. No residential building tops 12 stories. The elevated N and W trains stop at Astoria Boulevard and at Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard, the last stop on the line.

Astoria North, Ditmars & Steinway has 11,701 open HPD housing violations, 1,748 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,716 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 17th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
11,701
1,748 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,716
449 Class C · 21st in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,748 · 15%Class B4,875 · 42%Class A5,078 · 43%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 hazardous449
  • Class B · hazardous602
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,090

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

Good to know

  • Subway: Astoria Blvd and Astoria–Ditmars Blvd (N, W), the northern terminal
  • About 22,000 homes; about 49% in walk-up buildings
  • About 65% of residential lots are one- or two-family houses
  • No residential building taller than 12 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. Reworded the Ditmars/Steinway sentence to match the Astoria article (Ditmars is the western section; Steinway is the eastern end along Steinway Street). Astoria-Ditmars Blvd northbound label is "Last Stop".

Sources

  1. Astoria, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (data.ny.gov) (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.