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Baisley Park

Baisley Park is in southeastern Queens, in the southern part of the larger South Jamaica area south of downtown Jamaica. Its centerpiece is Baisley Pond Park, which covers more than 100 acres and includes a pond of about 30 acres. Most housing is low-rise: one- and two-family houses hold about 81% of the area's roughly 13,400 homes and fill about 97% of residential lots. Elevator buildings hold about 12%, and NYCHA's Baisley Park Houses is in the area. No subway or LIRR station lies inside the area. The nearest subway stops, Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer and Sutphin Blvd–Archer Av (E, J, Z), are about a mile from its edge.

Baisley Park has 13,190 open HPD housing violations, 1,749 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,768 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 13th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
13,190
1,749 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,768
253 Class C · 32nd in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,749 · 13%Class B7,280 · 55%Class A4,161 · 32%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous253
  • Class B · hazardous708
  • Class A · non-hazardous260

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • Baisley Pond Park: 100+ acres with a 30-acre pond
  • About 81% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • NYCHA Baisley Park Houses is in the area
  • Nearest subway (E, J, Z) about 1 mile away

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. Baisley Pond Park 109.6 acres in Parks Properties; 30-acre pond from the South Jamaica article. Baisley Park Houses footprint inside the NTA. Nearest stations Jamaica Center (0.97 mi) and Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av (1.03 mi) from the NTA edge.

Sources

  1. South Jamaica, 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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.