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Rockaway Beach, Arverne & Edgemere

This stretch of the Rockaway Peninsula runs along the Atlantic Ocean from Rockaway Beach east through Arverne to Edgemere. It faces the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, which runs from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Street. The housing mixes mid- and high-rise apartment buildings with blocks of two-family houses. These include several NYCHA developments, among them the Hammel Houses and Ocean Bay Apartments, and Arverne by the Sea, a development of about 2,300 homes that opened in 2006. Elevator buildings hold about half of all homes. The A train stops at Beach 44, 60 and 67 Streets, and the A and Rockaway Park Shuttle stop at Beach 90 and 98 Streets. The 32.9-acre Arverne East Nature Preserve is also inside the area.

Rockaway Beach, Arverne & Edgemere has 14,228 open HPD housing violations, 2,299 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,932 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 12th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
14,228
2,299 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,932
1,089 Class C · 10th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,299 · 16%Class B7,439 · 52%Class A4,490 · 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 hazardous1,089
  • Class B · hazardous1,520
  • Class A · non-hazardous928

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

Good to know

  • A train at Beach 44, 60 and 67 Sts; A and S at Beach 90 and 98 Sts
  • Faces the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk on the Atlantic
  • NYCHA: Hammel, Ocean Bay (Oceanside), Carleton Manor, Beach 41st St
  • Arverne by the Sea: about 2,300 homes, opened 2006
  • Arverne East Nature Preserve covers 32.9 acres

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. Stations were confirmed inside the polygon (MTA dataset). Beach 36 St falls just outside, in the Far Rockaway-Bayswater NTA. NYCHA developments come from the NYCHA dataset, with a majority of each footprint inside the NTA. The preserve acreage comes from NYC Parks Properties. Rockaway Community Park is its own NTA and is not claimed here. Re-checked 2026-10-12: Beach 3rd-153rd boardwalk span confirmed in the Rockaway Beach article; Arverne by the Sea (2,300 units, opened 2006) in the Arverne article. Hammel, Ocean Bay (Oceanside), Carleton Manor and Beach 41st St confirmed inside (NYCHA dataset). Stations confirmed inside (MTA dataset). Arverne East Nature Preserve 32.86 ac (Parks Properties). PLUTO recount: elevator buildings 52%.

Sources

  1. Rockaway Beach, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Arverne, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations · 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.