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Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Rockaway Park & Broad Channel

This area joins the western Rockaway Peninsula communities of Breezy Point, Belle Harbor and Rockaway Park with Broad Channel, which sits on Rulers Bar Hassock, the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay. Broad Channel is surrounded by the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and is one of the city's most flood-prone neighborhoods. One- and two-family houses hold about 63% of the area's roughly 12,400 homes and fill about 90% of residential lots; elevator buildings hold about 19%. The A and S trains stop at Broad Channel, Beach 105 Street and Rockaway Park–Beach 116 Street. Parks include Broad Channel American Park and Sunset Cove Park, a restored salt marsh opened in 2019.

Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Rockaway Park & Broad Channel has 4,730 open HPD housing violations, 511 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,123 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 39th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
4,730
511 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,123
243 Class C · 35th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C511 · 11%Class B1,688 · 36%Class A2,531 · 54%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 hazardous243
  • Class B · hazardous339
  • Class A · non-hazardous350

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

Good to know

  • Subway: Broad Channel, Beach 105 St, Rockaway Park–Beach 116 St (A, S)
  • Broad Channel is the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay
  • About 63% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • Sunset Cove Park opened in 2019

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. Broad Channel facts (Rulers Bar Hassock, refuge, flood risk, Sunset Cove Park opened Aug 21 2019, Broad Channel American Park) from the Broad Channel article; both parks inside the NTA. Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St is a terminal. Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden and Breezy Point Tip are a separate NTA.

Sources

  1. Broad Channel, 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.