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Auburndale

Auburndale is a residential neighborhood in northern Queens between Bayside and Murray Hill. It was developed starting in 1901 by L. H. Green, who named it after Auburndale, Massachusetts, after the Long Island Rail Road began serving the area. The Auburndale station on the LIRR Port Washington Branch still links it to Manhattan; there is no subway station in the neighborhood. The housing stock is mainly one- and two-family houses, which hold about 78% of its roughly 12,500 homes and fill about 94% of residential lots, and no residential building tops six stories. A section of Kissena Corridor Park runs through the area.

Auburndale has 2,865 open HPD housing violations, 328 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 566 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 48th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
2,865
328 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
566
74 Class C · 51st in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C328 · 11%Class B1,392 · 49%Class A1,145 · 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 hazardous74
  • Class B · hazardous124
  • Class A · non-hazardous196

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

Good to know

  • LIRR: Auburndale station (Port Washington Branch)
  • About 78% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • Nothing residential above six stories
  • Named after Auburndale, Massachusetts; developed from 1901

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. Changed "northeastern" to "northern" Queens to match the article. Auburndale LIRR station inside the NTA; nearest subway is about 1.9 miles away. Kissena Corridor Park section Q300A (45.9 acres) inside the NTA.

Sources

  1. Auburndale, 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. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks & Recreation (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.