29 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 29 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 29 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (92). Cleanliness (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 29 Street, with 481 reports, and cleanliness ranks 36 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,559 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 261 reports, and residential noise with 137. In all, 96 distinct 311 categories are represented on 29 Street. The 311 file works out to about 43 reports for every 100 homes on 29 Street.
29 Street carries 88 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 29 Street is pests, at 146 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (101 violations) and bed bugs (95). City housing records put 3,587 homes in 493 residential buildings on 29 Street, 233 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 20 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 61 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 29 Street ranks 65 on quietness and 47 on parking. A 47 on parking places 29 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 60 and housing at 56 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 90 and transit 86, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 29 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 37% of the 3,587 homes on file, 1,331 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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29 Street runs through Astoria, Queensbridge and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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