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Cambria Heights

Cambria Heights is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Queens. It runs from Springfield Boulevard, Francis Lewis Boulevard and St. Albans on the west to the Elmont, Nassau County border on the east, with Queens Village to the north and Montefiore Cemetery, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens and Rosedale to the south. It is almost entirely houses: one- and two-family homes hold about 97% of its roughly 5,900 homes and fill about 99% of residential lots, and no residential building is taller than three stories. There is no subway or LIRR station in the neighborhood; buses connect it to the subway. Cambria Playground (about 4.6 acres) is the main neighborhood park.

Cambria Heights has 2,266 open HPD housing violations, 257 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 324 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 50th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
2,266
257 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
324
47 Class C · 56th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C257 · 11%Class B1,292 · 57%Class A717 · 32%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 hazardous47
  • Class B · hazardous121
  • Class A · non-hazardous32

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

Good to know

  • About 97% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • No residential building above three stories
  • Borders Elmont in Nassau County
  • Cambria Playground: about 4.6 acres

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. The "largest park" claim was wrong: the Laurelton Parkway parkland strip (59.6 acres) is larger in Parks Properties; reworded to call Cambria Playground (4.635 acres) the main neighborhood park. Boundaries from the Wikipedia article. Specific bus routes omitted because the Queens bus network redesign changed routes.

Sources

  1. Cambria Heights, 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.