43 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 43 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 43 Road in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and food nearby (73). Infrastructure (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 43 Road, with 16 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. Reports on 43 Road span 16 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 63 reports for every 100 homes on 43 Road.
The HPD file on 43 Road holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 52 homes in 31 residential buildings on 43 Road, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among quiet residential streets, 43 Road ranks 67 on cleanliness and 20 on traffic safety. A 20 on traffic safety places 43 Road in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 63 and parking at 23. Transit ranks 33 and tree cover 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 43 Road ranks 73 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 43 Road is housing, at 89.
None of the 52 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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43 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).