Broad Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Broad Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.

Calm 44, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 11, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Broad Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (70) and food nearby (18). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Broad Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 23 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 74% of the 31 reports on file here. In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Broad Street. Divided by the homes on file, Broad Street carries roughly 148 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Broad Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Broad Street, 12 violations of it. PLUTO counts 19 residential buildings and 21 homes on Broad Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 55 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 6. That 6 on infrastructure puts Broad Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 44 and parking at 15. Transit ranks 6 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 18. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 58.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 21 on Broad 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Broad Street runs through Rosedale, 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).

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