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Queens Village

Queens Village is in eastern Queens near the Nassau County line, with Hollis to the west, Cambria Heights to the south and Oakland Gardens and Bellerose to the north and east. It is mostly a neighborhood of houses. One-family homes make up more than half of all homes, and two-family houses make up most of the rest. Many are Dutch Colonial and Tudor houses from the 1920s and 1930s. The Long Island Rail Road's Queens Village station, on the Hempstead Branch at Springfield Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, is the area's rail link. No subway station serves the neighborhood. Jamaica, Hillside, Hempstead and Braddock Avenues and Springfield Boulevard are the shopping streets.

Queens Village has 10,575 open HPD housing violations, 1,490 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,223 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 19th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
10,575
1,490 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,223
237 Class C · 36th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,490 · 14%Class B6,025 · 57%Class A3,060 · 29%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 hazardous237
  • Class B · hazardous393
  • Class A · non-hazardous220

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

Good to know

  • LIRR Queens Village station (Hempstead Branch)
  • No subway station in the neighborhood
  • About 56% of homes are one-family houses (PLUTO)
  • About two-thirds of homes date from before 1940 (PLUTO)
  • Wayanda Park and Queens Village Veterans Plaza are local open spaces

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. The Queens Village LIRR station was confirmed inside the polygon with the MTA Rail Stations dataset. Park names come from NYC Parks Properties. Re-checked 2026-10-12: Queens Village LIRR station (Hempstead Branch, Springfield Blvd and Jamaica Ave) and the 1920s-30s Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes confirmed in the Wikipedia article. PLUTO recount: one-family 56%, two-family 28%, 68% pre-1940. Note: the event-only Belmont Park LIRR station also falls inside the polygon. Wayanda Park and Queens Village Veterans Plaza confirmed in Parks Properties.

Sources

  1. Queens Village, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Rail Stations (LIRR and Metro-North) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (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.