45 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 45 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 45 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (76) and tree cover (95). Housing (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 45 Street, with 380 reports. The whole 311 file on 45 Street holds 1,565 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (240 reports) and blocked driveway (163). In all, 88 distinct 311 categories are represented on 45 Street. The 311 file works out to about 55 reports for every 100 homes on 45 Street.
45 Street carries 166 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 113 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 84 more, and doors for 81. PLUTO counts 549 residential buildings and 2,841 homes on 45 Street, with 234 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 45 Street holds about 5.2 homes.
Since 2021, 55 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 62, with parking at 40. 45 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts quietness at 61 and infrastructure at 58 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 45 Street ranks 82 on food nearby and 47 on transit. 45 Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 45 Street is traffic safety, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 2,841 homes on file, 714 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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45 Street runs through Astoria & Woodside, Sunnyside and Astoria, 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).