31 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 31 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 31 Drive in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and food nearby (74). Parking (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 31 Drive, with 83 reports, and parking ranks 32 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on 31 Drive holds 283 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 78 reports, and noise with 56. Reports on 31 Drive span 56 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 573 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 31 Drive carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 31 Drive is doors, at 34 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 24 more, and paint and lead for 23. 96 residential buildings on 31 Drive hold the 573 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 31 Drive have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 31 Drive ranks 72 on quietness and 35 on housing. 31 Drive sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 53 and traffic safety at 40 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 31 Drive is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
About 27% of the 573 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 140 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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31 Drive runs through Old Astoria, Flushing and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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