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Neighborhood · Queens

Glendale

Glendale is a long, narrow neighborhood in west-central Queens, with Forest Park to the southeast and a belt of cemeteries around much of its edge. Most housing is older: PLUTO data puts the typical residential building's construction year in the 1920s, and nearly half of residential lots are two-family houses. Many homes use yellow Kreischer brick, and three districts in the western part were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983: 75th Avenue–61st Street, Central Avenue and Cooper Avenue Row. The Shops at Atlas Park opened at the eastern end in 2006 on the site of the old Atlas Terminal. No subway stops inside; the M at Fresh Pond Rd and the L at Halsey St are just beyond the edges.

Glendale has 7,197 open HPD housing violations, 945 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,566 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 27th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
7,197
945 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,566
232 Class C · 36th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C945 · 13%Class B3,144 · 44%Class A3,108 · 43%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous232
  • Class B · hazardous368
  • Class A · non-hazardous574

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

Good to know

  • About 48% of residential lots are two-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Three National Register historic districts listed in 1983
  • Borders Forest Park and a belt of cemeteries
  • No subway inside; M (Fresh Pond Rd) and L (Halsey St) are a few blocks outside
  • Shops at Atlas Park (opened 2006) at the eastern end

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

Fixed: Forest Park lies southeast of the NTA (it borders on the east), not south; removed unsupported claim that Myrtle Avenue is the main shopping street. Verified in Wikipedia: Kreischer brick, three National Register historic districts listed 1983, Atlas Park opened April 2006 on the Atlas Terminal site. PLUTO 26v2: 48.1% of residential lots two-family; median year built 1925 (often estimated). Fresh Pond Rd (M) about 480 m and Halsey St (L) about 410 m outside. 80-00 Cooper Ave (Atlas Park) geocodes inside. Wikipedia's neighborhood lines differ from the NTA. Re-checked 2026-10-12: housing shares recomputed from PLUTO 26v2 (version confirmed via the API) by point-in-polygon against the 2020 NTA boundary (9nt8-h7nd); subway/LIRR stations re-placed from MTA station coordinates (39hk-dx4f, wxmd-5cpm); park names and acreage re-checked in NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve); history and boundary statements re-read in the cited Wikipedia articles; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch.

Sources

  1. Glendale, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (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 14, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.