Bowne Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Bowne Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bowne Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and tree cover (84). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Bowne Street. 77 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 142 of them. Across every category, 453 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 73 reports, and illegal parking with 61. Reports on Bowne Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,674 homes on file, that is about 27 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 44 Class C violations on Bowne Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bowne Street is doors, at 25 violations. Paint and lead follows at 20 violations, then pests at 19. 118 residential buildings on Bowne Street hold the 1,674 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 76, with housing at 54. A 54 on housing places Bowne Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 67 and quietness at 59 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bowne Street ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 42% of the 1,674 homes on file, 702 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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Bowne Street runs through East Flushing and Flushing, 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).