42 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 42 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 42 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (81) and tree cover (96). Parking (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 42 Street, with 496 reports, and parking ranks 25 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 42 Street holds 1,715 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 447 reports, and residential noise with 186. Reports on 42 Street span 84 distinct 311 categories. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on 42 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 128 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 42 Street is pests, at 125 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (88 violations) and bed bugs (75). City housing records put 3,036 homes in 572 residential buildings on 42 Street, 307 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 57 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 62 among numbered streets and housing ranks 46. 42 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 61 and cleanliness at 46. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 89 and transit at 55. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. 42 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where 42 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 30% of the 3,036 homes on file, 907 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 Street runs through Astoria & Woodside, Astoria and Sunnyside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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