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Neighborhood · Queens

Laurelton

Laurelton is in southeast Queens, bounded roughly by Springfield Boulevard, 121st Avenue, the Laurelton Parkway and Conduit Avenue, with Merrick Boulevard as its commercial spine. It was developed by Dean Alvord and modeled on an English village, with Tudor-style houses, both detached and attached, and several streets with landscaped center malls. PLUTO data shows nearly 80% of residential lots are one-family homes and nearly all the rest are two-family houses, with no high-rise buildings. The neighborhood takes its name from the LIRR's Laurelton station on the Far Rockaway Branch, which is inside the area; the Locust Manor and Rosedale stations are nearby. There is no subway. Montbellier Park, about 4.4 acres, is the main park.

Laurelton has 4,540 open HPD housing violations, 675 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 527 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 41st most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
4,540
675 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
527
81 Class C · 48th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C675 · 15%Class B2,358 · 52%Class A1,507 · 33%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 hazardous81
  • Class B · hazardous157
  • Class A · non-hazardous73

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

Good to know

  • LIRR Laurelton station (Far Rockaway Branch) is inside the area; no subway
  • Nearly 80% of residential lots are one-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Tudor-style houses and landscaped center malls
  • Montbellier Park (about 4.4 acres)

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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

Verified in Wikipedia: boundaries (Springfield Blvd, 121st Ave, Laurelton Pkwy, Conduit Ave), Merrick Blvd commercial spine, name from the LIRR station, developed by Dean Alvord on an English-village model with attached and detached Tudor houses, streets with landscaped center malls, no high-rises. PLUTO 26v2: 79.5% one-family and 18.6% two-family lots; no 10+ floor residential lots. LIRR Laurelton inside; Locust Manor (about 400 m) and Rosedale (about 420 m) outside. Montbellier Park 4.4 ac. 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. Laurelton, 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 Rail Stations (LIRR and Metro-North station list with 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.