13 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 13 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 31, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts 13 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (96) and transit (71). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Encampment is the most-filed complaint on 13 Street, with 48 reports. Across every category, 59 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 81% of them name encampment. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then blocked driveway at 20. Reports on 13 Street span 37 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 13 Street carries roughly 102 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on 13 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 28 residential buildings on 13 Street hold the 58 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.

Reported crashes on 13 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.

Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 64, with cleanliness at 6. 13 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 18 and parking at 17. Against every street in the city, 13 Street ranks 68 on food nearby and 51 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. 13 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 13 Street is housing, at 96.

Of the 58 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.

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13 Street runs through Queensbridge and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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