32 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does 32 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.

Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts 32 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (92) and food nearby (93). Parking (36) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 32 Street, with 398 reports, and parking ranks 36 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,175 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (199 reports) and residential noise (170). The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on 32 Street, counting every category.

32 Street carries 98 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 32 Street, 92 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (67 violations) and bed bugs (56). 473 residential buildings on 32 Street hold the 2,241 homes on file, 207 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.

Reported crashes on 32 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 65 among numbered streets and housing ranks 49. That 49 on housing puts 32 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 60 and cleanliness at 57 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 81 and tree cover 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 32 Street, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 32 Street is scored inside.

Traffic safety is where 32 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.

32% of the 2,241 homes recorded on 32 Street are rent-stabilized, 709 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

32 Street runs through Astoria 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).

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