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Neighborhood · Queens

Murray Hill & Broadway–Flushing

This area covers Murray Hill and Broadway–Flushing in northeast Flushing, Queens, east of downtown Flushing around Northern Boulevard. Broadway–Flushing, about 2,300 homes developed from 1906 by the Rickert-Finlay Realty Company, is mostly Colonial and Tudor Revival houses on large lots, and its historic district (about 1,330 properties) is on the State and National Registers. Overall, about 62% of residential lots in PLUTO data are one-family houses, while elevator and condo buildings hold about 43% of the roughly 21,000 homes. There is no subway; the LIRR Port Washington Branch stops at Murray Hill and Broadway stations inside the area. Bowne Park, about 12 acres with a pond, and Flushing Fields are the main parks.

Murray Hill & Broadway–Flushing has 6,102 open HPD housing violations, 1,230 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,685 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 32nd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
6,102
1,230 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,685
839 Class C · 14th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,230 · 20%Class B2,874 · 47%Class A1,998 · 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 hazardous839
  • Class B · hazardous1,013
  • Class A · non-hazardous600

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

Good to know

  • LIRR Port Washington Branch: Murray Hill and Broadway stations; no subway
  • Broadway–Flushing (developed from 1906) is a State and National Register historic district
  • About 62% of residential lots are one-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Bowne Park (about 12 acres) and Flushing Fields

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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: the 2,300 figure is the neighborhood's homes, while the registered historic district has 1,330 properties (Wikipedia); elevator+condo share corrected to 43.2% of 21,254 units. Verified: Rickert-Finlay development from 1906, Colonial/Tudor houses on large lots, Bowne Park with a pond (11.8 ac in NYC Parks), Flushing Fields 7.7 ac. PLUTO 26v2: 62.4% one-family lots. LIRR Murray Hill and Broadway inside; Auburndale about 100 m outside; no subway within 700 m. 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. Broadway–Flushing, 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.