Broadway, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Broadway in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against major corridors. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Broadway in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (57) and tree cover (92). Cleanliness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Broadway, with 346 reports, and cleanliness ranks 22 among major corridors. Across every category, 2,280 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise follows with 321 reports, and illegal parking with 314. In all, 112 distinct 311 categories are represented on Broadway. Set against the 3,098 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Broadway carries 65 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Broadway is pests, at 78 violations. Doors follows at 72 violations, then paint and lead at 47. PLUTO counts 325 residential buildings and 3,098 homes on Broadway, with 37 walk-ups and 22 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 9.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 379 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Broadway ranks 55 on housing and 35 on quietness. Broadway sits in the weaker half of major corridors on quietness. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 54 and traffic safety at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 83 and transit at 81. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Broadway, at 92. Broadway is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Parking is where Broadway ranks best against major corridors, at 57.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 3,098 homes on file, 985 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
- 43 Street, Queens
- Newtown Road, Queens
- 45 Street, Queens
- 31 Avenue, Queens
- 48 Street, Queens
- 38 Street, Queens
Broadway runs through Elmhurst, Astoria & Woodside and Astoria, 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).