5 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 5 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 5 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and food nearby (82). Parking (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 5 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 36 of them, and parking ranks 0 among numbered streets. Across every category, 250 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Water system is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 16. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 92 homes on file, that is about 272 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 92 homes in 7 residential buildings on 5 Street, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on 5 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 5 Street ranks 41 on quietness and 6 on cleanliness. That 6 on cleanliness puts 5 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 32 and traffic safety at 10. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 65 and transit at 40. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 5 Street, at 82. 5 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is where 5 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 55.
Of the 92 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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5 Street runs through Long Island City and Bellerose, 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).