38 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 38 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 38 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (93). Parking (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 38 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 851 of them, and parking ranks 17 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 52% of the 1,637 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 301 reports, then noise at 69. Reports on 38 Street span 93 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 71 reports for every 100 homes on 38 Street.
HPD has cited 35 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 81 violations on file. Pests accounts for 67 more, and paint and lead for 18. The housing file lists 546 residential buildings on 38 Street holding 2,315 homes, with 244 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.2 homes each.
NYPD records 59 people injured in crashes on 38 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 38 Street ranks 60 on traffic safety and 25 on cleanliness. 38 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts quietness at 54 and infrastructure at 39 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 92 and transit 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. 38 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 63.
25% of the 2,315 homes recorded on 38 Street are rent-stabilized, 556 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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38 Street runs through Astoria and Sunnyside, 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).