36 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 36 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 36 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 36 Street, with 436 reports, and cleanliness ranks 19 among numbered streets. Across every category, 899 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 123 reports, and residential noise with 120. Reports on 36 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,638 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on 36 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 36 Street, 47 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (38 violations) and doors (12). City housing records put 1,638 homes in 515 residential buildings on 36 Street, 180 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 49 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 57, with infrastructure at 30. That 30 on infrastructure puts 36 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 54 on the same scale, with parking at 35. Against every street in the city, 36 Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 72 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 36 Street, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
The housing file puts 19% of the 1,638 homes on 36 Street in rent stabilization, 308 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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36 Street runs through Astoria, Sunnyside and Queensbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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