46 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 46 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 52, 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 46 Road in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (73) and tree cover (84). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 46 Road, with 147 reports, and parking ranks 19 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on 46 Road holds 229 reports, and illegal parking is 64% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then residential noise at 29. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on 46 Road. Divided by the homes on file, 46 Road carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 170 residential buildings and 425 homes on 46 Road, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, 46 Road ranks 63 on cleanliness and 21 on infrastructure. 46 Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 50 on the same scale, with quietness at 44. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 46 Road is housing, at 73.
The housing file puts 11% of the 425 homes on 46 Road in rent stabilization, 40 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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46 Road runs through Auburndale, Bayside and Long Island City, 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).