Street record · Queens

51 Avenue

7 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Elmhurst.

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Qualified records7
Active-status records7
Latest status changeSep 9, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of 51 Avenue

City Planning maps 471 tax lots on 51 Avenue in Queens, 48% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1706 and the newest in 2020. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1940s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
471
Buildings
583
Homes
1,623
Typically built
1940s
Typical height
2–12 floors
Built area
2,319,943 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes225 of 471
  • Walk-up apartments169 of 471
  • Mixed residential and commercial21 of 471

Zoning: R5, R2A, M1-4/R6B 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 51 Avenue.

Of the 2 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 50% — and 0 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
17
Immediately hazardous
0
Addresses checked
2

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 19, 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

37 homes on 51 Avenue 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 21, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.