Center Boulevard, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Center Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against major corridors. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Center Boulevard in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and tree cover (71). Quietness (41) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Center Boulevard, with 487 reports. The whole 311 file on Center Boulevard holds 911 reports, and illegal parking is 53% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (107 reports) and commercial noise (89). In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on Center Boulevard. Divided by the homes on file, Center Boulevard carries roughly 21 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on Center Boulevard holding 4,399 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 489 homes each.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 84 among major corridors and parking ranks 46. That 46 on parking puts Center Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts infrastructure at 81 and cleanliness at 70 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Center Boulevard, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 4,399 homes on file, 717 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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Center Boulevard runs through Long Island City, 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).