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South Ozone Park

South Ozone Park is in southern Queens just north of JFK Airport, with Ozone Park and Howard Beach to the west and South Jamaica to the east. Aqueduct Racetrack is inside the area. Rockaway Boulevard and Liberty Avenue are the main commercial streets. It is mostly a neighborhood of houses: two-family homes hold about half of all homes and one-family houses about a third. Most of the stock dates from before 1940. The A train serves 104th Street, 111th Street and Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard on Liberty Avenue, and the Rockaway branch stops at Aqueduct Racetrack. Southern Fields and Police Officer Edward Byrne Park are the largest local parks.

South Ozone Park has 16,825 open HPD housing violations, 2,449 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,269 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 7th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
16,825
2,449 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,269
429 Class C · 23rd in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,449 · 15%Class B9,222 · 55%Class A5,154 · 31%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 hazardous429
  • Class B · hazardous737
  • Class A · non-hazardous432

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

Good to know

  • Aqueduct Racetrack is inside the area
  • A train: 104 St, 111 St, Ozone Park–Lefferts Blvd and Aqueduct Racetrack
  • About 86% of homes are one- or two-family houses (PLUTO)
  • Borders JFK Airport to the south
  • Southern Fields (5.6 acres) and P.O. Edward Byrne Park (5.0 acres)

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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 and Aqueduct were checked against the NTA polygon. Wikipedia also lists North Conduit Av, but that station falls in the Ozone Park NTA. Park acreage comes from NYC Parks Properties. Re-checked 2026-10-12: Aqueduct and the 104 St, 111 St, Lefferts Blvd and Aqueduct Racetrack stations fall inside the polygon. North Conduit Av sits on the boundary and is claimed by the Ozone Park profile. Southern Fields 5.6 ac and Byrne Park 5.0 ac are the largest parks inside. PLUTO recount: two-family 53%, one-family 33%, 75% pre-1940.

Sources

  1. South Ozone Park (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations · 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.