31 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 31 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 31 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (83) and food nearby (85). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 31 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 31 Street have injured 278 people, and traffic safety ranks 15 among numbered streets. The 311 file on 31 Street is led by illegal parking, with 697 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 29% of the 2,426 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (167 reports) and residential noise (127). Reports on 31 Street span 96 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 99 reports for every 100 homes on 31 Street.
31 Street carries 39 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 31 Street is pests, at 66 violations. Bed bugs follows at 55 violations, then paint and lead at 29. PLUTO counts 253 residential buildings and 2,442 homes on 31 Street, with 85 walk-ups and 26 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 31 Street holds about 9.7 homes.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 59, with parking at 17. 31 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and infrastructure at 27 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 31 Street ranks 81 on tree cover and 66 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. 31 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 31 Street is housing, at 83.
43% of the 2,442 homes recorded on 31 Street are rent-stabilized, 991 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 Street runs through Astoria, Sunnyside and Queensbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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