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East Elmhurst

East Elmhurst is a residential neighborhood in northwestern Queens. The name generally applies to the area directly south of LaGuardia Airport, which is counted as a separate area. Houses dominate: one- and two-family homes hold about 67% of its roughly 8,800 homes and fill about 85% of residential lots, and walk-up buildings hold about 23%. Local parks include Gorman Playground and the LaGuardia Landing Lights fields, and One Room Schoolhouse Park marks the site of the last one-room schoolhouse in Queens. No subway station lies inside the area; the nearest is 111 Street on the 7 line, about half a mile from its edge.

East Elmhurst has 8,836 open HPD housing violations, 1,424 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,260 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 22nd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
8,836
1,424 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,260
245 Class C · 34th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,424 · 16%Class B3,950 · 45%Class A3,462 · 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 hazardous245
  • Class B · hazardous264
  • Class A · non-hazardous407

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

Good to know

  • Directly south of LaGuardia Airport
  • About 67% of homes are in one- or two-family houses
  • Nearest subway: 111 St (7), about 0.5 mile
  • One Room Schoolhouse Park

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. Gorman Playground, LaGuardia Landing Lights section Q393H and One Room Schoolhouse Park are inside the NTA; One Room Schoolhouse Park commemorates the last one-room schoolhouse in Queens. 111 St is 0.45 mile from the edge.

Sources

  1. East Elmhurst, 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.