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College Point

College Point is in northern Queens, bounded by Flushing Bay on the west, the East River on the north, 138th Street and Malba on the east, and the Whitestone Expressway and Flushing on the south. The southern part has industrial and commercial businesses, while the northern shoreline was redeveloped with medium-density housing from the 1980s. One- and two-family houses hold about 71% of its roughly 10,000 homes, and condominiums about 9%; nothing residential tops six stories. No subway line was ever built here, and the LIRR Whitestone Branch closed in 1932. MacNeil Park (about 29 acres) overlooks the East River.

College Point has 4,715 open HPD housing violations, 742 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,134 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 40th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
4,715
742 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,134
227 Class C · 38th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C742 · 16%Class B2,055 · 44%Class A1,918 · 41%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 hazardous227
  • Class B · hazardous286
  • Class A · non-hazardous321

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

Good to know

  • No subway; LIRR Whitestone Branch closed in 1932
  • About 71% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • MacNeil Park: about 29 acres on the East River
  • Industrial and commercial uses in the south

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. Boundaries, 1980s shoreline redevelopment, no subway ever built and 1932 Whitestone Branch closure confirmed in the article. MacNeil Park 28.87 acres.

Sources

  1. College Point, 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.