28 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does 28 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 28 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (42) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 28 Street, with 315 reports, and cleanliness ranks 42 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 28 Street holds 814 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 191 reports, and residential noise with 77. Reports on 28 Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 35 reports for every 100 homes on 28 Street.
HPD has cited 36 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 52 violations on file. Pests accounts for 44 more, and doors for 15. 473 residential buildings on 28 Street hold the 2,337 homes on file, 150 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 28 Street holds about 4.9 homes.
Since 2021, 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 84, with parking at 44. 28 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Infrastructure ranks 84 on the same scale, with housing at 71. Food nearby ranks 86 and transit 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 28 Street, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 28 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
About 47% of the 2,337 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,091 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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28 Street runs through Astoria, Queensbridge and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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