34 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 34 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 34 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (89) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 34 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 223 of them, and cleanliness ranks 0 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water accounts for 13% of the 1,691 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (192 reports) and general (116). Reports on 34 Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,730 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 143 Class C violations on 34 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 93 violations on file. Doors follows at 87 violations, then paint and lead at 84. The housing file lists 278 residential buildings on 34 Street holding 2,730 homes, with 180 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 51 people injured in crashes on 34 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 34 Street ranks 64 on parking and 41 on housing. A 41 on housing places 34 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 58 and quietness at 54. Tree cover ranks 82 and transit 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 34 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 34 Street is traffic safety, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 55% of the 2,730 homes on file, 1,501 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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34 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).