33 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 33 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 33 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (90) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 33 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 309 of them, and cleanliness ranks 34 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 18% of the 1,700 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 223 reports, then residential noise at 197. In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on 33 Street. The 311 file works out to about 47 reports for every 100 homes on 33 Street.
The HPD file on 33 Street carries 157 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 33 Street, 102 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (96 violations) and paint and lead (62). PLUTO counts 507 residential buildings and 3,619 homes on 33 Street, with 278 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 105 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 33 Street ranks 60 on parking and 42 on housing. 33 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 46. Tree cover ranks 91 and transit 83, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 33 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
33% of the 3,619 homes recorded on 33 Street are rent-stabilized, 1,177 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
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33 Street runs through Astoria, Sunnyside 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).