42 Road, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does 42 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 73, 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 42 Road in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and transit (99). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 42 Road name heat and hot water than any other category, 61 of them. Across every category, 225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (33 reports) and street condition (22). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on 42 Road. Divided by the homes on file, 42 Road carries roughly 22 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 42 Road carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 20 residential buildings on 42 Road hold the 1,002 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 42 Road holds about 50 homes.
Reported crashes on 42 Road have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 42 Road ranks 87 on quietness and 64 on traffic safety. A 64 on traffic safety places 42 Road in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 83 on the same scale, with parking at 69. Food nearby ranks 94 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 42 Road, at 99. 42 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 42 Road is housing, at 90.
The housing file puts 42% of the 1,002 homes on 42 Road in rent stabilization, 391 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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42 Road runs through Long Island City and Auburndale, 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).