44 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 44 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 44 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and food nearby (92). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 44 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 591 of them, and parking ranks 31 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 44 Street holds 1,505 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 147 reports, and heat and hot water with 138. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on 44 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 44 Street carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 44 Street carries 147 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 44 Street, 134 violations of it. Doors follows at 93 violations, then paint and lead at 77. City housing records put 2,720 homes in 480 residential buildings on 44 Street, 248 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 44 Street holds about 5.7 homes.
Reported crashes on 44 Street have injured 51 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 71, with housing at 39. That 39 on housing puts 44 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 59 and cleanliness at 46 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 90 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 44 Street, at 92. 44 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 33% of the 2,720 homes on file, 900 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 Street runs through Sunnyside and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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