Benton Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Benton Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 16, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Benton Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (30). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Benton Street span 10 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Benton Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 43 residential buildings on Benton Street hold the 48 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Benton Street ranks 65 on parking and 39 on infrastructure. That 39 on infrastructure puts Benton Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 59 and quietness at 45 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Benton Street ranks 12 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Benton Street ranks 30 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Benton Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Benton Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 70.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 48 on Benton Street.
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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Benton Street runs through St. Albans, 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).