Cambria Heights, Queens: building violations, landlords and rent stabilization

Cambria Heights, Queens, has 20 graded residential buildings with 3 or more units, as of Oct 28, 2026. By grade: 7 A, 2 B, 2 C, 5 D and 4 F. The median building has 8.3 open HPD violations per 10 units, against 0 across Queens. 58 of its 5,853 residential units (1%) are rent-stabilized on the latest Department of Finance tax bills on file. The most common housing complaints to 311 in the last 12 months were heat and hot water (84), plumbing (36), and unsanitary condition (34).

Cambria Heights by the numbers

5,185 residential buildings (5,853 units) on record. 2,300 open HPD violations (269 class C, immediately hazardous). 214 housing complaints to 311 in the last 12 months, 61 executed evictions in 3 years, 0 reported bedbug infestations in 3 years. 2 buildings have rent-stabilized units on their tax bills.

Worst five in Cambria Heights

Most open HPD violations per 10 units. Graded rental buildings with 6 or more units; co-ops, condos and NYCHA are left out. Only buildings with an HPD violation issued in the last 24 months or a 311 housing complaint in the last 12 are listed.

  1. 115-85 Springfield Blvd: 63.3 open violations per 10 units (190 open, 30 units), grade F, owner: 115 SPRING INC
  2. 116-03 Springfield Blvd: 1.4 open violations per 10 units (4 open, 28 units), grade C, owner: BATTERSEA GARDENS INC

Best five in Cambria Heights

Rental buildings graded A or B with 6 or more units and a current HPD registration, ordered by the housing-code violations HPD issued per 10 units in the last 3 years, then 311 housing complaints per 10 units in the last 12 months, then class C (immediately hazardous) violations issued in 3 years, then the median days HPD took to close a violation in the last 12 months. Size is never a tie-breaker. Co-ops, condos and public housing (NYCHA) are left out. At least 5 years of record. Best buildings citywide.

No rental building with 6 or more units, a current registration and 5 years of record.

Largest landlords in Cambria Heights

By units in Cambria Heights, among portfolios of 3 or more buildings and 50 or more units citywide. Names are as filed on HPD registrations. How totals are counted. Report an error.

  1. Colleen McEntee (head officer on HPD registrations): 5 units in 4 buildings
  2. Eliyahu Rosenberg (head officer on HPD registrations): 3 units in 3 buildings
  3. Karla Ballard (head officer on HPD registrations): 3 units in 3 buildings
  4. ERIC MOORE (head officer on HPD registrations): 3 units in 3 buildings
  5. ERICK GONZALEZ (head officer on HPD registrations): 3 units in 2 buildings

Nearby neighborhoods

Sources: NYC HPD housing maintenance code violations, HPD property registrations and housing litigation, 311 service requests, DOB violations, NYC Marshals evictions, and HPD bedbug filings from NYC Open Data, plus rent-stabilized unit counts from NYC Department of Finance tax bills. How grades work.