Burling Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Burling Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.

Calm 58, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Burling Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (92) and food nearby (68). Transit (21) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Burling Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 31 of them. The whole 311 file on Burling Street holds 47 reports, and blocked driveway is 66% of it. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 19 reports. Reports on Burling Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. About 39 reports per 100 homes sit on Burling Street, counting every category.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Burling Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 72 residential buildings and 119 homes on Burling Street, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 85, with parking at 33. A 33 on parking places Burling Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 84 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 33. Against every street in the city, Burling Street ranks 44 on tree cover and 21 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 68. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Burling Street is scored inside.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.

Of the 119 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Burling Street runs through East 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).

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