27 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does 27 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 27 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (88) and tree cover (87). Cleanliness (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 27 Street, with 311 reports, and cleanliness ranks 38 among numbered streets. Across every category, 786 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (144 reports) and noise (62). Reports on 27 Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. About 31 reports per 100 homes sit on 27 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 27 Street carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 27 Street, 56 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 46 violations, then doors at 16. 323 residential buildings on 27 Street hold the 2,519 homes on file, 119 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 27 Street holds about 7.8 homes.
NYPD records 30 people injured in crashes on 27 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 87, with parking at 52. 27 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 75 and infrastructure at 74. Food nearby ranks 86 and transit 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 27 Street ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 27 Street is quietness, at 88.
About 24% of the 2,519 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 585 homes in all.
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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27 Street runs through Astoria, Long Island City and Queensbridge, 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).