44 Drive, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 44 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 44 Drive in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and transit (85). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 44 Drive. 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 26 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on 44 Drive is led by illegal parking, with 202 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 59% of the 342 reports on file here. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 33 reports, then heat and hot water at 29. Reports on 44 Drive span 67 distinct 311 categories. About 20 reports per 100 homes sit on 44 Drive, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on 44 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 44 Drive, 10 violations of it. Behind it the file holds structure, at 10 violations. 28 residential buildings on 44 Drive hold the 1,671 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 60 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 84, with parking at 57. A 57 on parking places 44 Drive in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 80 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 72. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and tree cover at 45. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is where 44 Drive ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 88.
19% of the 1,671 homes recorded on 44 Drive are rent-stabilized, 291 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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44 Drive runs through Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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