Center Drive, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does Center Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 18, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Center Drive in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and tree cover (60). Transit (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 14 distinct 311 categories are represented on Center Drive.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Center Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 27 residential buildings on Center Drive hold the 27 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Center Drive have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 68, with traffic safety at 3. Center Drive sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 55 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 1. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Center Drive, at 60. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Center Drive is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Of the 27 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.
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Center Drive runs through Douglaston and College Point, 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).