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Pomonok, Electchester & Hillcrest

This central Queens area runs south from the Long Island Expressway, with Kew Gardens Hills to the west and Fresh Meadows to the east. Two large complexes along Jewel Avenue dominate the north end. One is NYCHA's Pomonok Houses. The other is Electchester, a co-op started in 1949 by Local 3 of the electrical workers' union with three- and six-story buildings and a pair of high-rise towers. Both stand on the site of the former Pomonok Country Club. Farther south, Hillcrest has one- and two-family houses around Union Turnpike. St. John's University's main campus and Queens Hospital Center are both in the area. No subway station is inside it.

Pomonok, Electchester & Hillcrest has 3,565 open HPD housing violations, 512 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,118 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 43rd most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
3,565
512 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,118
252 Class C · 33rd in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C512 · 14%Class B1,554 · 44%Class A1,499 · 42%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 hazardous252
  • Class B · hazardous311
  • Class A · non-hazardous404

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

Good to know

  • Pomonok Houses (NYCHA) and the Electchester co-op line Jewel Avenue
  • Both complexes were built from 1949 to 1951 on a former golf course
  • St. John's University main campus is in Hillcrest
  • Elevator buildings hold about 42% of homes (PLUTO)
  • No subway station inside; the F runs along Hillside Avenue to the south

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. St. John's University and Queens Hospital Center locations were checked inside the NTA polygon. Pomonok Houses is listed in the NYCHA developments dataset. Electchester details come from the Pomonok article. The F line runs along Hillside Avenue south of the area, and its nearest station is about 0.85 km from the boundary (MTA dataset). Re-checked 2026-10-12: Electchester (Local 3, 1949, three- and six-story buildings plus a pair of 23-story towers) and the 1949-1951 build on the Pomonok Country Club confirmed in the Pomonok article. St. John's main campus in Hillcrest confirmed in the Fresh Meadows article. Pomonok Houses inside the polygon (NYCHA dataset). PLUTO recount: elevator buildings 42%. Nearest F station is about 0.85 km away.

Sources

  1. Pomonok, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Fresh Meadows, Queens (Hillcrest 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)

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.