43 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 43 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 43 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 43 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 43 Street have injured 127 people, and traffic safety ranks 27 among numbered streets. The 311 file on 43 Street is led by illegal parking, with 247 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 1,223 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 200 reports, then residential noise at 110. The file runs across 94 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 43 Street carries roughly 48 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 67 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 96 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 83 more, and doors for 49. 568 residential buildings on 43 Street hold the 2,537 homes on file, 271 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 43 Street holds about 4.5 homes.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 55, with cleanliness at 30. A 30 on cleanliness places 43 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 42 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 83 and transit at 44. 43 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 43 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
17% of the 2,537 homes recorded on 43 Street are rent-stabilized, 431 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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43 Street runs through Astoria & Woodside, Sunnyside and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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