Street record · Queens

42 Street

18 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Sunnyside. 6 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records18
Active-status records14
Latest status changeSep 17, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of 42 Street

City Planning maps 623 tax lots on 42 Street in Queens, 49% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1875 and the newest in 2024. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1930s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
623
Buildings
733
Homes
3,036
Typically built
1930s
Typical height
2–6 floors
Built area
3,130,856 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments305 of 623
  • One and two family homes251 of 623
  • Industrial and manufacturing38 of 623

Zoning: R5, R4, M1-1 are the districts covering most of the street. A zoning district sets what may be built, not what is there now.

NYC Department of City Planning · Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · 64uk-42ks · read 2026-09-11

Living here

The housing record on 42 Street.

Of the 4 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 25% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
35
Immediately hazardous
14
Addresses checked
4

The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Sep 18, 2026.

How to read this street page

A shared street name does not mean a shared project.

These records are grouped by the street name and borough published by DOB. Each address remains an independent filing unless its source record explicitly connects it to another site. Use this page to scan activity along the corridor, then open an individual filing for its exact status, scope and identifiers.

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On the market

21 homes on 42 Street are listed today.

What the brokerages are currently asking along this street. These are the first 12. Each one links to the agent’s own page, where the price is live and the photographs are.

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Source snapshot accessed Sep 20, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.