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NYC Neighborhood Comparison
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For buyers focused on affordability, New Hyde Park has the lower median sale price at $263K vs $1.6M in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Investors analyzing rental yield will find New Hyde Park offers a stronger rent-to-price ratio based on current market data.
| Metric | New Hyde Park | Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
|---|---|---|
| Median Sale Price | $262,500 | $1,630,000 |
| Median Condo Price | N/A | $839,000 |
| Median Co-op Price | $335,000 | $255,000 |
| Median Rent | $3,500 | $3,300 |
| Active Listings | 1 | 54 |
| Rental Inventory | 1 | 211 |
| Days on Market | 427 | 53 |
| Price Cut Share | 100.0% | 24.1% |
| Monthly Sales Volume | 1 | 11 |
| YoY Price Change | -70.5% | +128.2% |
| YoY Rent Change | +59.1% | +1.5% |
| YoY Inventory Change | 0.0% | -14.3% |
| Subway Lines | N/A | N/A |
Prices in New Hyde Park moved -70.5% over the past year, compared to +128.2% in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Prospect Lefferts Gardens is seeing price appreciation while New Hyde Park has softened, pointing to different supply-demand dynamics in each market.
New Hyde Park is a residential Queens neighborhood on the Nassau County border, featuring single-family Colonial and Cape Cod homes with private driveways and landscaped yards. The LIRR New Hyde Park station on the Hempstead Branch provides commuter rail service to Penn Station. The neighborhood's low-rise residential character and proximity to Long Island make it one of the most suburban-feeling areas within New York City limits.
View Full Market ReportProspect Lefferts Gardens borders the eastern edge of Prospect Park and sits adjacent to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Museum, with the Lefferts Manor Historic District preserving blocks of limestone, brownstone, and brick rowhouses in Renaissance Revival, Neo-Federal, and Tudor Revival styles. The B, Q, and S trains stop at Prospect Park station, the Q serves Parkside Avenue, and the 2 and 5 trains connect at Sterling and Winthrop Streets. Housing ranges from intact 19th- and early 20th-century rowhouses to prewar apartment buildings along the main corridors.
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Listing data is derived in whole or in part from the RLS at REBNY (Real Estate Board of New York) Internet Data Exchange (IDX) database. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than Milton Coste | Keller Williams NYC are marked with the RLS logo. The information provided is for consumers' personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. Data is refreshed every 15 minutes per REBNY IDX requirements.
From the 2008 financial crisis through the 2020 pandemic, the NYC metro Case-Shiller composite fell about 25% peak-to-trough between 2007 and 2012, then fully recovered by 2017 and gained another 15% through Q1 2020. New Hyde Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens both tracked this broader NYC arc, with annual closing volume contracting sharply in 2009 and again in Q2 2020 before normalizing.
Outer-borough submarkets including New Hyde Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens generally tracked the broader NYC metro pattern of a 20% to 25% peak-to-trough decline before fully recovering by 2017 and posting further gains through early 2020.
Source: Per Case-Shiller Home Price Index, NYC metro subset, 2008-2020, cross-referenced with StreetEasy historical price data series.
| Metric (2026) | New Hyde Park | Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
|---|---|---|
| Median Sale Price | $262,500 | $1,630,000 |
| Median Rent | $3,500/mo | $3,300/mo |
| Year-over-Year Price Change | -70.5% | +128.2% |
| Average Days on Market | 427 days | 53 days |
| Distance to Nearest Subway | N/A | N/A |
Table values reflect current 2026 market conditions. Historical 2008-2020 commentary is sourced from Case-Shiller NYC metro composite and StreetEasy historical series.
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