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Maspeth

Maspeth is in western Queens near the Brooklyn line, bordered by Woodside to the north, Middle Village to the east, Ridgewood to the south and Brooklyn across Newtown Creek to the west. Chartered in 1642 under the Rev. Francis Doughty, it was the first English settlement in Queens. Housing is mostly older one- and two-family homes: in PLUTO data about 46% of residential lots are two-family and 35% one-family houses, with walk-up apartments making up much of the rest, and no high-rises. There is no subway station inside; the M train's Middle Village–Metropolitan Av terminal is nearby. Frank Principe Park, about 7.5 acres, is the largest park.

Maspeth has 6,527 open HPD housing violations, 746 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,302 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 30th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
6,527
746 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,302
180 Class C · 41st in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C746 · 11%Class B2,627 · 40%Class A3,154 · 48%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 hazardous180
  • Class B · hazardous232
  • Class A · non-hazardous489

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

Good to know

  • First English settlement in Queens (1642)
  • About 46% of residential lots are two-family and 35% one-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • No subway inside; M at Middle Village–Metropolitan Av is nearby
  • Frank Principe Park (about 7.5 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

Fixed: removed the Ridgewood Gardens sentence (could not confirm the complex lies inside this NTA); neighbors now match Wikipedia and NTA adjacency. Verified: 1642 charter to Rev. Francis Doughty, first English settlement in Queens. PLUTO 26v2: 45.9% two-family and 35.2% one-family lots; no 10+ floor residential lots. Middle Village–Metropolitan Av (M) about 475 m outside. Frank Principe Park 7.46 ac is the largest NYC Parks property in 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. Maspeth, 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. NYC Parks Properties (park names, acreage and boundaries) · NYC Department of Parks & Recreation (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.