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Oakland Gardens & Hollis Hills

Oakland Gardens and Hollis Hills sit in eastern Queens between Cunningham Park on the west and Alley Pond Park on the east, south of Bayside and north of Queens Village. Almost all of the housing went up between 1940 and 1974. About half of all homes are in co-ops, split between walk-up garden-apartment complexes and elevator buildings. Hollis Hills adds blocks of detached Colonial, Tudor and ranch houses on large lots. No subway or LIRR station lies inside the area, so most trips start with a bus or a car. A strip of Vanderbilt's 1908 Long Island Motor Parkway runs through it and is now a walking and cycling path.

Oakland Gardens & Hollis Hills has 891 open HPD housing violations, 141 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 289 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 57th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
891
141 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
289
80 Class C · 50th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C141 · 16%Class B469 · 53%Class A281 · 32%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 hazardous80
  • Class B · hazardous58
  • Class A · non-hazardous100

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

Good to know

  • Sits between Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park
  • No subway or LIRR station inside the area
  • About 9 in 10 homes were built between 1940 and 1974 (PLUTO)
  • Walk-up and elevator co-ops hold about half the homes (PLUTO)
  • Motor Parkway is a 13.9-acre path on Vanderbilt's 1908 road

Before you rent or buy here

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

Location checked against the 2020 NTA boundaries (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Housing mix = share of residential units by PLUTO building class for the 2020 census tracts in this NTA (tract-to-NTA equivalency hm78-6dwm); PLUTO year-built values for older buildings are often estimates. Hollis Hills housing styles and boundaries from the Queens Village article. Wikipedia redirects "Oakland Gardens" to the Bayside article, which gives Oakland Gardens as bounded by the LIE, Alley Pond Park, Union Turnpike and Cunningham Park. Motor Parkway acreage comes from NYC Parks Properties. No subway or rail station falls inside the polygon (checked against the MTA station datasets). Re-checked 2026-10-12: PLUTO recount gives 93% of units built 1940-74 and co-op classes C6+D4 = 53% of units. Removed unsourced "two-story" and "up to six stories" building heights. Added the Bayside article (Oakland Gardens boundaries) as a source. Motor Parkway 13.9 acres, fully inside the NTA, and 1908 start confirmed on the NYC Parks history page.

Sources

  1. Queens Village, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Bayside, Queens (Oakland Gardens section) (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Motor Parkway: history · NYC Parks (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.