Cross Bay Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against major corridors. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cross Bay Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (65) and tree cover (99). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Cross Bay Boulevard. Since 2021, reported crashes on Cross Bay Boulevard have injured 413 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among major corridors. Street condition draws more reports than anything else here, 113 of them. Across every category, 629 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name street condition. Illegal parking follows with 102 reports, and commercial noise with 48. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cross Bay Boulevard. Set against the 500 homes on file, that is about 126 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Cross Bay Boulevard carries 14 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Cross Bay Boulevard, 17 violations of it. 301 residential buildings on Cross Bay Boulevard hold the 500 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against major corridors, quietness comes in at 58, with infrastructure at 14. That 14 on infrastructure puts Cross Bay Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Parking ranks 37 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 29. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cross Bay Boulevard ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 500 on Cross Bay Boulevard.
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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Cross Bay Boulevard runs through Breezy Point, Howard Beach and Ozone Park, 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).