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Middle Village

Middle Village is in central Queens, bounded roughly by the Long Island Expressway on the north, Woodhaven Boulevard on the east, Cooper Avenue on the south and Mount Olivet Cemetery on the west. It was named in the early 1800s as the midpoint on the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike (now Metropolitan Avenue), still its main street. Housing is mostly one- and two-family homes, many attached: about 54% of residential lots in PLUTO data are one-family and 34% two-family houses, with small walk-up apartment buildings and no high-rises. The M train's Middle Village–Metropolitan Av terminal is just past the southwest edge. Juniper Valley Park, about 56 acres, was created on the former Juniper Swamp after the city acquired the land in the 1930s, and includes the small Pullis Farm Cemetery.

Middle Village has 3,353 open HPD housing violations, 409 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 866 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 45th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
3,353
409 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
866
133 Class C · 44th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C409 · 12%Class B1,345 · 40%Class A1,599 · 48%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 hazardous133
  • Class B · hazardous165
  • Class A · non-hazardous340

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

Good to know

  • Juniper Valley Park (about 56 acres) on the former Juniper Swamp
  • About 54% of residential lots are one-family and 34% two-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • M train terminal at Middle Village–Metropolitan Av is just outside
  • Metropolitan Avenue, the old Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike, is the main street

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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: Juniper Valley Park was not 'built in 1930'; per its Wikipedia article the city moved to acquire the swamp in 1931 and approved the park purchase in 1935, and the Pullis family cemetery remains inside. Verified: boundaries (LIE, Woodhaven Blvd, Cooper Ave, Mount Olivet Cemetery) and name origin on the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike. PLUTO 26v2: 53.5% one-family and 34.1% two-family lots; no 10+ floor residential lots. Middle Village–Metropolitan Av about 250 m outside. Juniper Valley Park 55.6 ac (NYC Parks). 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. Middle Village, 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)
  4. Juniper Valley Park (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (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.