46 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 46 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 51, 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 46 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (70) and tree cover (97). Cleanliness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 46 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 236 of them, and cleanliness ranks 25 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,380 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 187 reports, and residential noise with 168. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on 46 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 154 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 46 Street, 94 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (94 violations) and doors (90). 628 residential buildings on 46 Street hold the 2,350 homes on file, 168 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 69, with quietness at 32. A 32 on quietness places 46 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 59 on the same scale, with housing at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 81 and transit at 46. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where 46 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 69.
29% of the 2,350 homes recorded on 46 Street are rent-stabilized, 670 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 Street runs through Sunnyside, Astoria & Woodside and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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