Lead paint violations in Queens.
Queens certifies 15.2% of its Class C lead paint violations. Citywide the rate is 20.5%.
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8,572 lead paint violations cited in Queens over the last three years.
What this means
Lead paint violations in homes where a child may live are among the most serious violations HPD writes. A certified firm has to do the abatement, and the owner then certifies the correction with HPD.
If you own the building. An open lead paint violation is a fact about the building that outlasts whoever owns it. It shows at sale and at refinance until HPD accepts a certification, dismisses it or closes it on review. Of those, certification is the one an owner controls. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Queens for a living. Queens carries 2,038 Class C lead paint violations more than a year old with nothing filed against them.
Our current feed holds 427 Queens case files across all categories, and 243 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 16. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C lead paint violations here.
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If you rent here. An inspector stood in the building and wrote these up. What these numbers cannot tell you is whether the repair happened, only whether a certification was filed. What each status means.
Queens, by category: Heat and hot water, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD lead paint violation gets issued
Most of these violations start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if the inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From then on anyone can look it up on HPD Online by address, and it stays open until HPD accepts a correction or closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.
When Queens lead paint violations are cited, by month
Lead paint violations HPD has cited in Queens, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. December has the most, 839. August has the fewest, 628.
Lead paint violations by class: A, B and C
HPD sorts every lead paint violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Queens, HPD has issued 7,831 Class C lead paint violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 1,145 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
Class C is 87.2% of the 8,976 lead paint violations recorded in Queens.
How often Queens lead paint violations get certified corrected
Two numbers sum up Queens on Class C lead paint. One is 1,190, the violations certified corrected out of 7,831, 15.2%, filed at a median of 34 days and a 90th percentile of 104. The other is 2,038, the violations past a year with no certification at all.
Not Complied With is HPD’s status for a violation whose certify-by date came and went without an accepted certification. 0.8% of lead paint violations in Queens carry it.
Lead paint takes longer to certify than any of the other five categories, and the violations that name abatement take roughly twice as long again. Abatement and certification, measured.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
Two things decide the next status: the certify-by date and HPD’s review. Filed inside the date, a certification shows NOV Certified On Time; filed outside it, NOV Certified Late, and the missed window stays visible. Paperwork HPD finds insufficient becomes Defect Letter Issued, to be filed again. A certification an inspector contradicts becomes Invalid Certification. Every one of those has a page in the glossary.
Queens against the rest of New York City
Against a citywide total of 77,191 lead paint violations, Queens accounts for 8,976, or 11.6%. The five boroughs compare like this.
| Borough | Lead paint violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 31,952 |
| Brooklyn | 24,092 |
| Manhattan | 11,585 |
| Queens | 8,976 |
| Staten Island | 586 |
Which Queens streets carry the most open lead paint violations
Open lead paint violations in Queens are not spread evenly. Counted by street, the heaviest run like this.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| 33 Street | 86 |
| 34 Avenue | 80 |
| Jamaica Avenue | 77 |
| 35 Avenue | 70 |
| 72 Street | 62 |
| 81 Street | 62 |
| Madison Street | 60 |
| 42 Street | 54 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Queens buildings with open lead paint violations
Each of these Queens buildings has its own page. They are 12 of the 515 with open lead paint violations, picked again each week and listed by street, not by count. Each count covers lead paint violations only, counted on September 27, 2026.
- 41-11 40 Street, Queens 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 95-05 41 Avenue, Queens 3 open Class C lead paint violations
- 41-41 44 Street, Queens 8 open Class C lead paint violations
- 41-29 46 Street, Queens 3 open Class C lead paint violations
- 108-20 48 Avenue, Queens 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 48-06 58 Lane, Queens 3 open Class C lead paint violations
- 34-11 58 Street, Queens 1 open Class C lead paint violation
- 153-04 75 Avenue, Queens 7 open Class C lead paint violations
- 27-34 Butler Street, Queens 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 40-45 Elbertson Street, Queens 13 open lead paint violations
- 172-32 Jamaica Avenue, Queens 7 open Class C lead paint violations
- 42-01 Layton Street, Queens 13 open Class C lead paint violations
Every HPD status on Queens lead paint violations
HPD gives every violation a status that says where the case stands. Here is each one on Queens’ lead paint violations, heaviest first, with the glossary behind every name.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Queens lead paint violations, read from our copy of HPD's Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (NYC Open Data, wvxf-dwi5). Figures through September 27, 2026, read on September 29, 2026. https://violationscout.com/nyc/queens-lead-paint
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches lead paint in Queens; the three-year count at the top is read from the city's open-data API when the page is built. Source: NYC Open Data. How every figure here is counted: /methodology.
The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 8,976 lead paint violations in Queens. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.