48 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 48 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 48 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 48 Street. 139 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 23 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 336 of them. Across every category, 1,470 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (277 reports) and blocked driveway (151). In all, 92 distinct 311 categories are represented on 48 Street. Set against the 2,493 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
48 Street carries 131 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 48 Street, 135 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 86 violations, then doors at 81. The housing file lists 646 residential buildings on 48 Street holding 2,493 homes, with 250 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.9 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 46 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 24. 48 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 40 and housing at 35 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 48 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 51.
About 21% of the 2,493 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 516 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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48 Street runs through Sunnyside, Astoria & Woodside 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).