40 Road, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 40 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 40 Road in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and food nearby (97). Street crime (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 40 Road, with 76 reports. Across every category, 416 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (38 reports) and residential noise (34). The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. About 28 reports per 100 homes sit on 40 Road, counting every category.
The HPD file on 40 Road carries 37 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 40 Road, 32 violations of it. Pests follows at 20 violations. PLUTO counts 83 residential buildings and 1,472 homes on 40 Road, with 47 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on 40 Road since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 40 Road ranks 71 on parking and 52 on infrastructure. 40 Road sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 71 and traffic safety at 59 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 40 Road is quietness, at 71.
About 3% of the 1,472 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 38 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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40 Road runs through Flushing, Elmhurst and Corona, 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).