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Howard Beach & Lindenwood

Howard Beach and Lindenwood are in southwest Queens on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bordered on the north by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue, with Cross Bay Boulevard as the main commercial street. About two-thirds of residential lots in PLUTO data hold one-family houses. Lindenwood was built on landfill in the 1950s and 1960s with red-brick garden co-ops, six-story co-op and condo buildings and two-family homes. Howard Beach dates to 1897, when William J. Howard began filling marsh land and building cottages. The A train's Howard Beach–JFK Airport station sits on the area's edge, and local buses include the Q11, Q41, Q52 SBS and Q53 SBS. Open space includes Gemini Fields and part of Spring Creek Park along the Brooklyn line.

Howard Beach & Lindenwood has 3,390 open HPD housing violations, 430 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 748 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 44th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
3,390
430 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
748
119 Class C · 47th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C430 · 13%Class B1,537 · 45%Class A1,423 · 42%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 hazardous119
  • Class B · hazardous169
  • Class A · non-hazardous257

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

Good to know

  • Subway: A train at Howard Beach–JFK Airport, on the area's edge
  • About 67% of residential lots are one-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Lindenwood: 1950s–60s garden co-ops and six-story buildings
  • Neighborhood founded in 1897 by William J. Howard
  • Parks include Gemini Fields and part of Spring Creek Park

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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: bus routes were sourced to the wrong article; now from Howard Beach Wikipedia (Q11, Q41, Q52 SBS, Q53 SBS). Verified in Wikipedia: Belt Parkway/Conduit Avenue northern border, 1897 founding by William J. Howard (filled land in 1897, cottages in 1898), Lindenwood built on landfill in the 1950s–60s, Cross Bay Boulevard as main shopping district. PLUTO 26v2: 67.1% of residential lots one-family. Howard Beach–JFK Airport (A) on the edge; Aqueduct–N Conduit Av about 130 m outside. Gemini Fields (10.8 ac) inside; about 79% of the Spring Creek Park Addition parcel inside. 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. Howard Beach (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)

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“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.