Boss Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Boss Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Boss Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (77) and transit (60). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Boss Street, with 20 reports. The whole 311 file on Boss Street holds 36 reports, and illegal parking is 56% of it. In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on Boss Street. The 311 file works out to about 157 reports for every 100 homes on Boss Street.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Boss Street holding 23 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Boss Street have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Boss Street ranks 46 on traffic safety and 5 on parking. That 5 on parking puts Boss Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 35 on the same scale, with housing at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and tree cover at 29. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Boss Street, at 60. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Boss Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 77.
Of the 23 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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Boss Street runs through South Ozone 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).