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Kew Gardens Hills

Kew Gardens Hills is in central Queens, east of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park and the Van Wyck Expressway and north of Union Turnpike. Only about 6% of residential buildings in PLUTO data predate 1940. About 78% of residential lots hold one-family houses, many attached in rows, but about half of the roughly 13,500 homes are in three- to six-story garden-apartment buildings with lawns and inner paths. Parkway Village, between Parsons Boulevard, Union Turnpike and the Grand Central Parkway, was built in the late 1940s to house United Nations staff. There is no subway station inside; the E and F at Kew Gardens–Union Tpke are nearby, and buses such as the Q64 run along Jewel Avenue. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground and Vleigh Playground are local parks.

Kew Gardens Hills has 7,980 open HPD housing violations, 1,540 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,147 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 23rd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
7,980
1,540 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,147
990 Class C · 11th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,540 · 19%Class B4,533 · 57%Class A1,907 · 24%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 hazardous990
  • Class B · hazardous1,387
  • Class A · non-hazardous669

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

Good to know

  • No subway inside; E, F at Kew Gardens–Union Tpke are about a third of a mile beyond the edge
  • About 52% of residential units are in walk-up apartment buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Parkway Village was built in the late 1940s for UN employees
  • Jewel Avenue and Union Turnpike are main through streets

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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: removed 'co-op' label for Parkway Village (not supported by the cited source); bus routes now sourced to the Kew Gardens Hills article (lists the Q64; Jewel Avenue is a main east-west artery). Verified: three- to six-story post-war garden apartments with lawns and paths, Parkway Village built for UN employees in the late 1940s and geocodes inside. PLUTO 26v2: 77.6% one-family lots; 51.8% of 13,517 units in walk-ups; 6% of dated lots built before 1940. Kew Gardens–Union Tpke about 575 m outside. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground (3.25 ac) and Vleigh Playground (2.24 ac) 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. Kew Gardens Hills, 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)

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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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.