37 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 37 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 37 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (64) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 37 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 311 of them. The whole 311 file on 37 Street holds 1,124 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (169 reports) and blocked driveway (154). In all, 90 distinct 311 categories are represented on 37 Street. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on 37 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 37 Street carries 103 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 37 Street is pests, at 72 violations. Paint and lead follows at 49 violations, then bed bugs at 41. City housing records put 1,760 homes in 526 residential buildings on 37 Street, 164 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 37 Street holds about 3.3 homes.
Reported crashes on 37 Street have injured 63 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 42 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 24. A 24 on cleanliness places 37 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 40 and parking at 33 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 91 and transit 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. 37 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 37 Street is quietness, at 64.
28% of the 1,760 homes recorded on 37 Street are rent-stabilized, 485 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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37 Street runs through Astoria, Sunnyside and Queensbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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