49 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 49 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 49 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (75) and tree cover (91). Quietness (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on 49 Street, with 217 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,122 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 214 reports, and blocked driveway with 89. The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,765 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 95 Class C violations on 49 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 49 Street is pests, at 88 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 65 more, and doors for 62. City housing records put 2,765 homes in 368 residential buildings on 49 Street, 147 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 58 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 66 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 46. That 46 on cleanliness puts 49 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 63 and housing at 54. Against every street in the city, 49 Street ranks 78 on food nearby and 46 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 49 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where 49 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 2,765 homes on file, 749 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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49 Street runs through Astoria & Woodside, Sunnyside and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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