40 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 40 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 40 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (89). Housing (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on 40 Street, with 372 reports. The whole 311 file on 40 Street holds 870 reports, and heat and hot water is 43% of it. Residential noise follows with 108 reports, and illegal parking with 99. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on 40 Street. Set against the 1,546 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 199 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 210 violations on file. Doors follows at 137 violations, then pests at 135. City housing records put 1,546 homes in 161 residential buildings on 40 Street, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 40 Street holds about 9.6 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 40 Street ranks 80 on infrastructure and 52 on cleanliness. A 52 on cleanliness places 40 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 76 and quietness at 59 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 71 and transit 70, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 40 Street ranks 89 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where 40 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 94.
35% of the 1,546 homes recorded on 40 Street are rent-stabilized, 535 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 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).