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Old Astoria & Hallets Point

Old Astoria covers the East River waterfront of western Astoria around Hallets Point, the knob-shaped peninsula between Pot Cove and Hallets Cove, across the river from Manhattan's Upper East Side. NYCHA's Astoria Houses sit on the peninsula. Next to them, the Durst Organization's Halletts Point towers have opened a public riverside esplanade. Inland, older walk-ups and two-family houses mix with newer apartment buildings. About half of all homes are in elevator buildings, and most were built after 1975. Hallets Cove Playground runs along the shore, and Astoria Park is next door to the north. The nearest N and W stations, on 31st Street, are about half a kilometer outside the area.

Old Astoria & Hallets Point has 5,572 open HPD housing violations, 998 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,581 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 33rd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
5,572
998 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,581
422 Class C · 24th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C998 · 18%Class B2,327 · 42%Class A2,247 · 40%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous422
  • Class B · hazardous475
  • Class A · non-hazardous480

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • Hallets Point peninsula juts into the East River at Hell Gate
  • NYCHA's Astoria Houses occupy the peninsula
  • Halletts Point Esplanade is a public riverside walk
  • About half the homes are in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • No subway inside; N/W stations are about 0.5 km east

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. NYC Parks describes Hallets Point as a knob-shaped peninsula framed by Pot Cove and Hallett's Cove. Astoria Houses checked in the NYCHA developments dataset. Astoria Park is its own NTA, so it is described as adjacent. Distance to the 30 Av/Broadway (N W) stations was measured from the NTA boundary using the MTA Subway Stations dataset. Opening dates conflict across sources and were left out. Re-checked 2026-10-12: Hallets Point description and Astoria Houses (opened 1948) confirmed on the NYC Parks Hallets Cove page. Durst Halletts Point Esplanade confirmed in the Astoria article. PLUTO recount: elevator buildings 51% of units, 58% built 1975 or later. 30 Av and Broadway stations measured about 0.5 km outside.

Sources

  1. Astoria, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Hallets Cove Playground: history · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.