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Jackson Heights

Jackson Heights is in northwest Queens, north of Roosevelt Avenue and crossed by Northern Boulevard, with 37th Avenue as its main shopping street. It was laid out from 1916 by the Queensboro Corporation as a planned garden-apartment community, and part of it became a city historic district in 1993 (a larger area has been on the National Register since 1999). Half of the area's roughly 35,000 homes are in elevator buildings and another quarter are in walk-ups, mixed with blocks of attached two-family houses. The 7 runs above Roosevelt Avenue with stations at 74 St, 82 St, 90 St and Junction Blvd, and the E, F, M and R stop at Jackson Hts–Roosevelt Av at the southwest corner. Travers Park is the main neighborhood park.

Jackson Heights has 22,669 open HPD housing violations, 4,949 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 9,094 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 2nd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
22,669
4,949 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
9,094
2,926 Class C · 1st in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C4,949 · 22%Class B10,875 · 48%Class A6,845 · 30%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 hazardous2,926
  • Class B · hazardous3,638
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,934

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

Good to know

  • Subway: 7 at 74 St, 82 St, 90 St and Junction Blvd; E, F, M, R at Jackson Hts–Roosevelt Av
  • Jackson Heights Historic District: city designation 1993, National Register 1999
  • About 50% of residential units are in elevator buildings and 26% in walk-ups (PLUTO 26v2)
  • 37th Avenue is the main commercial street

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: removed the 'about 600 buildings' count, which neither Wikipedia nor the LPC records we could open confirm. Verified in Wikipedia: laid out by the Queensboro Corporation in 1916, city historic district designated October 19, 1993, National Register district 1999, 37th Avenue as main commercial street, Travers Park as main local park. PLUTO 26v2: 49.8% of 35,147 units in elevator and 25.9% in walk-up buildings. 74 St, 82 St, 90 St, Junction Blvd on the southern edge; Jackson Hts–Roosevelt Av about 25 m outside the corner. 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. Jackson Heights (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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.