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Douglaston & Little Neck

Douglaston and Little Neck form the northeastern corner of Queens. The area is bounded by the Cross Island Parkway on the west, the Grand Central Parkway on the south, the Nassau County line on the east and Little Neck Bay on the north. Much of it is suburban: one- and two-family houses fill about 96% of residential lots and hold about 55% of its roughly 9,900 homes, with walk-up apartment buildings holding about 26%. Douglas Manor and Douglaston Hill are listed historic districts. Two LIRR Port Washington Branch stations, Douglaston and Little Neck, serve the area. Udalls Park Preserve and the Douglaston Park Golf Course are here.

Douglaston & Little Neck has 918 open HPD housing violations, 63 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 213 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 56th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
918
63 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
213
39 Class C · 58th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C63 · 7%Class B499 · 54%Class A356 · 39%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 hazardous39
  • Class B · hazardous60
  • Class A · non-hazardous50

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

Good to know

  • LIRR: Douglaston and Little Neck stations
  • Douglas Manor and Douglaston Hill historic districts
  • Douglaston Park Golf Course: about 105 acres
  • About 96% of residential lots are one- or two-family houses

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 and historic districts (Douglas Manor / Douglaston Historic District and Douglaston Hill, both NYC-designated and National Register listed) from the article. Both LIRR stations inside the NTA. Golf course 104.6 acres; Udalls Park Preserve 44.4 acres. Alley Pond Park is a separate NTA.

Sources

  1. Douglaston–Little Neck, 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.