40 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 40 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 40 Drive in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and food nearby (93). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 40 Drive, with 12 reports. In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on 40 Drive.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 40 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 24 residential buildings on 40 Drive holding 63 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on 40 Drive since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, 40 Drive ranks 76 on quietness and 18 on cleanliness. 40 Drive sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 51 and housing at 23. Against every street in the city, 40 Drive ranks 70 on transit and 34 on tree cover. 40 Drive ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 40 Drive is infrastructure, at 80.
None of the 63 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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40 Drive runs through Elmhurst, 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).