Briar Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Briar Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Briar Place in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (72) and transit (67). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Briar Place, with 18 reports. The whole 311 file on Briar Place holds 87 reports, and blocked driveway is 21% of it. Reports on Briar Place span 20 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Briar Place carries roughly 128 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 20 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Briar Place, 20 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 10 more. 12 residential buildings on Briar Place hold the 68 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 51 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 15. Briar Place sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 23 and traffic safety at 23. Food nearby ranks 35 and tree cover 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Briar Place, at 67. Briar Place is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where Briar Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 74% of the 68 homes on file, 50 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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Briar Place runs through Far Rockaway, 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).