Far Rockaway Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Far Rockaway Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against major corridors. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Far Rockaway Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and transit (79). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 20 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 115 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Far Rockaway Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 12 violations on file. City housing records put 115 homes in 54 residential buildings on Far Rockaway Boulevard, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Far Rockaway Boulevard since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 63 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 26. Far Rockaway Boulevard sits in the weaker half of major corridors on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 52 and quietness at 29 among major corridors. Tree cover ranks 34 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. Far Rockaway Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
Of the 115 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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Far Rockaway Boulevard runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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