Francis Lewis Boulevard, Queens: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against major corridors. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Francis Lewis Boulevard in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (68) and tree cover (100). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Francis Lewis Boulevard, with 522 reports. Across every category, 1,340 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (165 reports) and damaged tree (83). The file runs across 92 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Francis Lewis Boulevard carries roughly 64 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Francis Lewis Boulevard carries 34 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Francis Lewis Boulevard is pests, at 68 violations. Paint and lead follows at 27 violations, then doors at 13. The housing file lists 1,131 residential buildings on Francis Lewis Boulevard holding 2,094 homes, with 37 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 616 people injured in crashes on Francis Lewis Boulevard since 2021.
Against major corridors, housing comes in at 52, with traffic safety at 12. A 12 on traffic safety places Francis Lewis Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Cleanliness ranks 49 on the same scale, with parking at 31. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Francis Lewis Boulevard ranks 100 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 2,094 homes on file, 351 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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Francis Lewis Boulevard runs through Auburndale, Laurelton and Queens Village, 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).