Vermin and pest violations in Queens.
25.3% of Queens’ Class C vermin and pest violations have sat open more than a year with nothing filed. Citywide it is 20.2%.
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20,058 vermin and pest violations cited in Queens over the last three years.
What this means
A rodent or roach condition is a hazardous violation. The owner has to get rid of the pests, and repeat cases call for integrated pest management. Left open, these violations pile up from one inspection to the next.
If you own the building. An HPD vermin and pest violation stays open until HPD accepts a certification or closes it. Until then it sits in the building’s public history, where a buyer, a lender or a plan examiner will read it. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Queens for a living. 4,205 Class C vermin and pest violations in Queens are over a year old and carry no certification. Whatever is happening on site, nothing has been filed with HPD.
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 vermin and pest violations here.
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If you rent here. Each of these was confirmed by an HPD inspector. A certification means the owner filed paperwork, not that anyone came back to look at the work. What each status means.
Queens, by category: Heat and hot water, Lead paint, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD vermin and pest 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 vermin and pest violations are cited, by month
Vermin and pest 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. October has the most, 2,038. February has the fewest, 1,309.
Vermin and pest violations by class: A, B and C
HPD sorts every vermin and pest 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 16,648 Class C vermin and pest violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 4,323 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
Class C is 79.4% of the 20,971 vermin and pest violations recorded in Queens.
How often Queens vermin and pest violations get certified corrected
A certification is the owner’s statement that the repair is done, and in Queens one has been filed on 43.5% of the 16,648 Class C vermin and pest violations. The median wait from inspection to that filing is 25 days; nine in ten land inside 34. The other side of the number: 4,205 violations open past a year with nothing filed.
The status that follows a missed deadline is Not Complied With: no accepted certification by the certify-by date. It sits on 6.2% of Queens’ vermin and pest violations.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
What happens next depends on the date and the review. A certification filed by the certify-by date shows as on time, one filed after it as late. HPD can then find the paperwork insufficient, which is Defect Letter Issued and a second filing, or send an inspector who finds the condition still there, which is Invalid Certification. Each of those has its own page in the glossary.
Queens against the rest of New York City
Citywide, HPD has written 215,254 vermin and pest violations. 20,971 of them are in Queens, 9.7%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.
| Borough | Vermin and pest violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 91,391 |
| Brooklyn | 63,214 |
| Manhattan | 34,943 |
| Queens | 20,971 |
| Staten Island | 4,735 |
Which Queens streets carry the most open vermin and pest violations
Grouped by street, this is where Queens’ open vermin and pest violations sit.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| 37 Avenue | 154 |
| Jamaica Avenue | 147 |
| Seagirt Avenue | 123 |
| 35 Avenue | 122 |
| 34 Avenue | 111 |
| 153 Street | 94 |
| Sanford Avenue | 93 |
| Hillside Avenue | 91 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Queens buildings with open vermin and pest violations
Listed by street, a different 12 each week: 12 of the 1,568 Queens buildings with open vermin and pest violations and a page of their own here. Each count covers vermin and pest violations only, counted on September 27, 2026.
- 31-18 42 Street, Queens 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 41-41 44 Street, Queens 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 11-15 46 Road, Queens 1 open Class C vermin and pest violation
- 41-29 46 Street, Queens 12 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 108-20 48 Avenue, Queens 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 48-06 58 Lane, Queens 1 open Class C vermin and pest violation
- 218-89 98 Avenue, Queens 7 open vermin and pest violations
- 90-06 102 Street, Queens 1 open Class C vermin and pest violation
- 32-49 107 Street, Queens 4 open vermin and pest violations
- 86-19 116 Street, Queens 5 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 31-90 140 Street, Queens 1 open Class C vermin and pest violation
- 141-18 Cherry Avenue, Queens 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
Every HPD status on Queens vermin and pest violations
The status tells you what happened to a vermin and pest violation. Here is how they break down in Queens, most common first; the glossary explains each.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Queens vermin and pest 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-vermin
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches vermin and pest 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: 20,971 vermin and pest violations in Queens. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.