Austin Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Austin Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Austin Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (95). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Austin Street, with 865 reports, and parking ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 2,296 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (706 reports) and non-emergency police matter (346). The file runs across 96 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,078 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
Austin Street carries 136 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Austin Street is doors, at 107 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (59 violations) and pests (45). PLUTO counts 303 residential buildings and 3,078 homes on Austin Street, with 36 walk-ups and 27 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Austin Street holds about 10 homes.
NYPD records 59 people injured in crashes on Austin Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 46 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 24. Austin Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 45 and cleanliness at 44 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Austin Street ranks 80 on transit and 78 on food nearby. Austin Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Austin Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Austin Street is quietness, at 52.
Rent stabilization covers about 28% of the 3,078 homes on file, 868 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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Austin Street runs through Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Rego Park, 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).