Colfax Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Colfax Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Colfax Street in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (78) and food nearby (31). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Colfax Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 13 of them. Across every category, 37 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name blocked driveway. In all, 20 distinct 311 categories are represented on Colfax Street. Set against the 83 homes on file, that is about 45 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Colfax Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 72 residential buildings on Colfax Street hold the 83 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Colfax Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 62, with infrastructure at 19. That 19 on infrastructure puts Colfax Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 46 on the same scale, with parking at 35. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 31 and transit at 6. Colfax Street ranks 31 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Colfax Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Colfax Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 78.
Of the 83 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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Colfax Street runs through Queens Village and Cambria Heights, 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).