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Flushing & Willets Point

This area covers downtown Flushing and Willets Point in north-central Queens. Flushing was founded in 1645 as Vlissingen, and the Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue crossing is one of the busiest intersections in the city. Flushing–Main Street is the 7 train's terminal, and the LIRR Port Washington Branch stops here too. Housing is mostly apartments: about 49% of its roughly 30,500 homes are in elevator buildings and 35% in condominiums, and towers reach 26 stories. Willets Point, the industrial "Iron Triangle" east of Citi Field, is being redeveloped, and Etihad Park, a planned 25,000-seat stadium for New York City FC, broke ground there in December 2024.

Flushing & Willets Point has 12,158 open HPD housing violations, 2,630 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 4,796 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 15th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
12,158
2,630 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
4,796
1,615 Class C · 5th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,630 · 22%Class B5,784 · 48%Class A3,744 · 31%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 hazardous1,615
  • Class B · hazardous1,768
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,179

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

Good to know

  • Subway: Flushing–Main St (7 terminal); LIRR Port Washington Branch
  • About 30,500 homes; about 49% in elevator buildings
  • Founded in 1645 as Vlissingen
  • Willets Point redevelopment includes Etihad 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. Founded Oct 10 1645 as Vlissingen; Main St/Roosevelt Av is the third-busiest intersection in the city per the Flushing article. Flushing-Main St (7 terminal) and the Flushing Main Street LIRR station are inside the NTA. Willets Point and the Etihad Park site fall inside this NTA; 25,000 seats and December 2024 groundbreaking per the Willets Point article. Changed "mostly high-rise" to "mostly apartments" since condo units are not all high-rise.

Sources

  1. Flushing, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Willets Point, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (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.