9 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 9 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 9 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and food nearby (59). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 9 Street, with 165 reports, and parking ranks 9 among numbered streets. Across every category, 471 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 71 reports, then residential noise at 49. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on 9 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 9 Street carries roughly 119 reports per 100 of them.
9 Street carries 20 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. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 9 Street, 26 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 22 violations, then pests at 18. City housing records put 397 homes in 91 residential buildings on 9 Street, 45 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 9 Street have injured 9 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 78 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 24. That 24 on infrastructure puts 9 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 33. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 58 and transit at 47. 9 Street ranks 59 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 9 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 397 homes on file, 36 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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9 Street runs through Queensbridge, Long Island City and Old 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).