Rent-Stabilized Apartments in Queens: Where to Find Them

About 565 of the 2,927 apartments newly listed in Queens in September 2026 (19.3%) were in buildings on New York's rent-stabilization registry. Listings were most likely to be stabilized along the Queens Boulevard and 7 train corridors, in Corona, Forest Hills, Rego Park and Jackson Heights. RentReboot is the best choice for the search: one saved search watches 900+ NYC rental sources and flags listings that match rent-stabilization records. Confirm any apartment with its lease rider and HCR rent history.

Published October 27, 2026. Listing figures come from the RentReboot NYC Rental Index, October 2026 edition: apartments first listed in Queens from September 1 to 30, 2026, each counted once however many sites posted it. Registry counts come from New York State's registration records.

Queens listings come from two very different kinds of housing. One is the waterfront towers of Long Island City and Hunters Point, which put a steady stream of apartments online. The other is the older housing of Astoria, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Ridgewood, Forest Hills and Rego Park, where most of the borough's stabilized buildings are. Apart from Astoria, none of those neighborhoods listed more than 120 apartments in September. The state counted 185,340 registered rent-stabilized apartments in Queens in 2025, about 18% of the five boroughs' total. In September, Queens produced 19% of the city's new listings but only about 11% of those in registry buildings.

Where stabilized listings are in Queens

Of September's 2,927 new Queens listings, 19.3% were in registry buildings, and RentReboot's own rating, which also weighs building age and size, put 17.4% as likely stabilized. Only 1.8% of listings said the apartment itself was rent-stabilized.

The table covers every Queens neighborhood with at least 50 new listings in September, sorted by the share RentReboot rated likely stabilized. "On the registry" is the share in buildings on the state's rent-stabilization registry. Rents are medians for all new listings in the neighborhood, stabilized or not.

Neighborhood	New listings	On the registry	Likely stabilized	1BR median	2BR median
Corona	54	47.1%	56.9%	–	–
Forest Hills	120	45.8%	46.2%	–	–
Rego Park	80	43.8%	45.0%	–	–
Jackson Heights	63	42.9%	39.7%	–	–
Woodside	54	26.4%	34.0%	–	–
Flushing	156	35.9%	32.1%	$2,250	$3,150
Ridgewood	109	15.5%	25.4%	–	–
Astoria	401	14.0%	15.5%	$3,228	$4,054
Ditmars-Steinway	58	13.8%	13.8%	–	–
Bayside	60	11.7%	13.3%	–	–
Rockaway	103	5.4%	13.0%	–	–
Long Island City	642	25.4%	12.6%	$4,500	$6,470
Hunters Point	426	25.1%	11.5%	$4,523	$6,510
Jamaica	153	14.4%	5.2%	–	–

A dash means fewer than 50 new listings of that size. Long Island City includes Hunters Point, and Astoria includes Ditmars-Steinway. No single building counts for more than 10% of a neighborhood's shares; in Ridgewood, that left 71 of its 109 new listings in the share calculations.

The corridor neighborhoods are where volume and share meet. From 473 new listings, Forest Hills, Flushing, Rego Park, Corona and Jackson Heights produced about 195 that RentReboot rated likely stabilized: about 55 in Forest Hills, 50 in Flushing, 36 in Rego Park, 29 in Corona and 25 in Jackson Heights. Long Island City's 642 new listings, Hunters Point included, produced about 81, and Astoria's 401 about 62.

The Long Island City towers

Long Island City, including Hunters Point, accounted for 22% of all new Queens listings in September. A quarter of them were in registry buildings, but most of those registry matches were buildings finished in 1974 or later, which usually reach the registry through tax-benefit programs such as 421-a. RentReboot's rating gives them less weight, which is why only 12.6% were rated likely. In those buildings, the program decides which apartments are covered and for how long; how 421-a buildings work covers what to ask.

The towers also distort the borough's medians. Studios asked a median $3,125 in September, more than one-bedrooms at $3,050, because 45.5% of new Queens studios were in Long Island City, against 31.9% of one-bedrooms.

Where the registry buildings are

Grouped by the city health department's ZIP code neighborhoods, the 9,788 Queens building records in RentReboot's copy of the state registry are concentrated in the west of the borough:

ZIP code neighborhood	ZIP codes	Registry building records	Share of Queens
Long Island City–Astoria	11101, 11102, 11103, 11104, 11105, 11106	2,723	27.8%
West Queens	11368, 11369, 11370, 11372, 11373, 11377, 11378	2,310	23.6%
Ridgewood–Forest Hills	11374, 11375, 11379, 11385	1,666	17.0%
Flushing–Clearview	11354, 11355, 11356, 11357, 11358, 11359, 11360	686	7.0%
Bayside–Little Neck	11361, 11362, 11363, 11364	642	6.6%
Jamaica	11412, 11423, 11432, 11433, 11434, 11435, 11436	556	5.7%
Fresh Meadows	11365, 11366, 11367	438	4.5%
Southwest Queens	11414, 11415, 11416, 11417, 11418, 11419, 11420, 11421	355	3.6%
Rockaway	11691, 11692, 11693, 11694, 11695, 11697	261	2.7%
Southeast Queens	11004, 11005, 11411, 11413, 11422, 11426, 11427, 11428, 11429	142	1.5%

Nine records with ZIP codes outside the table are left out.

One ZIP code stands apart. Ridgewood's 11385 has 1,207 registry building records, more than any other ZIP code in New York City and 12.3% of the Queens total. Yet Ridgewood produced only 109 new listings in September, so in any given month most of those buildings will not appear in a listing search at all. A building-first search does better there than waiting for listings.

What Queens stabilized listings ask

Across all new Queens listings in September, the median ask was $3,050 for a one-bedroom and $3,399 for a two-bedroom. Those medians include market-rate apartments. Flushing had the lowest published one-bedroom median of any neighborhood in the index, $2,250, and Astoria's was $3,228. In Long Island City and Hunters Point, one-bedrooms asked about $4,500.

RentReboot's August 15, 2026 analysis of active listings found a median ask of $3,162 for likely stabilized Queens listings and $3,500 for the rest, $338 or about 10% less. The comparison mixes apartment sizes and neighborhoods, so part of the gap reflects where stabilized buildings are; the borough comparison explains its limits.

How to search Queens for a stabilized apartment

Search the corridors, not the towers. Set alerts on Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Woodside and Sunnyside together. None of them listed more than 120 apartments in September, so a search limited to one will turn up few matches.
Ask who owns the apartment. Co-ops are common in Queens elevator-building neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens. An apartment rented out by an individual co-op or condo owner is usually not stabilized, even when the building is on the registry, and RentReboot's rating marks condo buildings down for that reason.
Go building by building in Ridgewood and Astoria. Find addresses on the stabilized-buildings map, look up each building's managing agent (how to find an NYC building's owner), and follow the ones you want with building alerts.
Let the address check run for you. Only 1.8% of Queens listings say the apartment is stabilized. RentReboot's rent-stabilized apartment alerts check each new listing's address against the registry and flag likely and verified matches across 900+ NYC rental sources.
In Long Island City, ask about the program. If a tower listing says the building is stabilized, ask which tax-benefit program covers the apartment and when its benefit period ends.

The citywide method is in how to find rent-stabilized apartments in NYC, and the search tips guide covers paperwork and speed. For apartments of any kind, see finding an apartment in Queens.

Checking a Queens apartment before you sign

A registry building can hold market-rate apartments, co-op sublets and stabilized apartments side by side. Before you pay, ask who your landlord will be, then ask for the complete lease with the Rent Stabilization Lease Rider and the legal regulated rent in writing. Once you are the tenant, request the apartment's rent history through Ask HCR, which mails its answer to the apartment.

The full workflow is in how to check if an apartment is rent-stabilized, and what to look for in a rent-stabilized lease lists the documents.

About these numbers

The Rental Index counts apartments first listed in September 2026 that no tracked source had shown in the previous 60 days: whole apartments from studios to four bedrooms, asking $1,000 to $25,000 a month, from rental marketplaces, brokerage websites and landlord and building websites. Classified-board posts are left out because they rarely carry an address that can be matched across sites.

On the registry: the building appears in New York's rent-stabilization registry records. Those buildings can also hold market-rate apartments and, in co-ops and condos, apartments rented out by their owners.
Said so in the listing: the listing text states that the apartment is rent-stabilized. RentReboot labels these matches "verified," but the claim still needs the lease and HCR records behind it.
Likely: RentReboot's own rating, which weighs the registry match with building age and size. It is a search signal, not legal status.

Counts such as "about 565" multiply a published share by the number of apartments it covers and are rounded. The 185,340 figure is New York State HCR's count of registered rent-stabilized apartments in Queens County for the 2025 registration year; the five boroughs together had 1,023,964. Registry building records are from RentReboot's copy of the state registry (47,601 NYC records), checked October 27, 2026.

Also see the guides for Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, and the full building directory at rent-stabilized buildings in NYC.

FAQ

How many rent-stabilized apartments are in Queens?

New York State HCR counted 185,340 registered rent-stabilized apartments in Queens for the 2025 registration year, about 18% of the five boroughs' 1,023,964. RentReboot's copy of the state registry lists 9,788 Queens building records, most of them in Long Island City–Astoria, West Queens and Ridgewood–Forest Hills ZIP codes.

Where are rent-stabilized apartments in Queens?

Mostly in the older western neighborhoods. In September 2026, the highest shares of new listings rated likely stabilized were in Corona (56.9%), Forest Hills (46.2%), Rego Park (45.0%), Jackson Heights (39.7%), Woodside (34.0%) and Flushing (32.1%). Ridgewood's 11385 ZIP code has more registry building records than any other in the city.

Are Long Island City apartments rent-stabilized?

Some are. A quarter of September's new Long Island City listings were in registry buildings, mostly towers built in 1974 or later, which usually reach the registry through tax-benefit programs such as 421-a. RentReboot rated 12.6% likely stabilized. Ask which program covers the apartment and how long its benefit lasts.

Is a co-op apartment for rent in Queens rent-stabilized?

Usually not when an individual shareholder or condo owner is renting it out, even if the building is on the registry. Some co-op buildings still have stabilized tenants who stayed through the conversion, which is why the buildings appear on the registry. Ask who owns the apartment and get the lease rider in writing before you treat it as stabilized.

Are rent-stabilized apartments cheaper in Queens?

By median asking rent, yes. In RentReboot's August 15, 2026 analysis, likely stabilized Queens listings had a median ask of $3,162 against $3,500 for other listings, about 10% less. The comparison mixes apartment sizes and neighborhoods.