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Springfield Gardens (South) & Brookville

Southern Springfield Gardens and Brookville sit in southeastern Queens just north of JFK Airport, with Laurelton and Rosedale to the east. The area is almost entirely one- and two-family houses. Two-family homes hold about two-thirds of all homes, and most were built after 1940. Springfield Park centers on Springfield Lake on Springfield Boulevard. The roughly 90-acre Brookville Park on the Rosedale border contains Conselyea's Pond. Part of Idlewild Park also falls inside the area. No subway or LIRR station is inside. The Laurelton and Rosedale LIRR stations are just beyond its eastern edge.

Springfield Gardens (South) & Brookville has 4,921 open HPD housing violations, 656 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 597 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 34th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
4,921
656 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
597
81 Class C · 49th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C656 · 13%Class B2,698 · 55%Class A1,567 · 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 hazardous81
  • Class B · hazardous216
  • Class A · non-hazardous69

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

Good to know

  • Brookville Park: about 90 acres, with Conselyea's Pond
  • Springfield Park (23.5 acres) surrounds Springfield Lake
  • About 96% of homes are one- or two-family houses (PLUTO)
  • Borders JFK Airport to the south
  • Laurelton and Rosedale LIRR stations are just outside

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. Brookville Park and Springfield Park lie fully inside the polygon, and Idlewild Park is partly inside (NYC Parks Properties). LIRR stations are about 240-260 m outside the boundary (MTA Rail Stations dataset). Re-checked 2026-10-12: Springfield Park (23.5 ac, Springfield Lake) and 90-acre Brookville Park with Conselyea's Pond, next to Rosedale, confirmed in the Springfield Gardens article and Parks Properties (89.9 ac). Laurelton and Rosedale LIRR stations are 236-259 m outside. PLUTO recount: two-family 66%, one- and two-family 96%.

Sources

  1. Springfield Gardens, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Parks Properties · 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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.