47 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 47 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 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 47 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (76) and tree cover (95). Parking (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 47 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 410 of them, and parking ranks 37 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 47 Street holds 1,351 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 176 reports, and heat and hot water with 155. Reports on 47 Street span 85 distinct 311 categories. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on 47 Street, counting every category.
47 Street carries 136 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 47 Street is pests, at 112 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 68 more, and paint and lead for 59. PLUTO counts 732 residential buildings and 2,488 homes on 47 Street, with 250 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
Reported crashes on 47 Street have injured 48 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 47 Street ranks 73 on traffic safety and 40 on housing. A 40 on housing places 47 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 66 and cleanliness at 46 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 47 Street ranks 79 on food nearby and 51 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 47 Street, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 47 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
About 29% of the 2,488 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 707 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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