39 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 39 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 39 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (58) and food nearby (88). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 39 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 39 Street have injured 62 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among numbered streets. The 311 file on 39 Street is led by illegal parking, with 136 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 29% of the 465 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (45 reports) and heat and hot water (35). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on 39 Street. About 126 reports per 100 homes sit on 39 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 53 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (45 violations) and doors (39). PLUTO counts 97 residential buildings and 369 homes on 39 Street, with 11 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 48 among numbered streets and housing ranks 9. 39 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 23 and parking at 19 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 39 Street ranks 72 on transit and 66 on tree cover. 39 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 39 Street is infrastructure, at 54.
About 33% of the 369 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 121 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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39 Street runs through 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).