Gateway Boulevard, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Gateway Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Gateway Boulevard in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and food nearby (63). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Gateway Boulevard, with 117 reports. Across every category, 336 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 21 reports, then illegal parking at 18. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on Gateway Boulevard, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 69 Class C violations on Gateway Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 39 violations on file. Doors accounts for 26 more, and paint and lead for 25. City housing records put 451 homes in 29 residential buildings on Gateway Boulevard, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 57 among major corridors and infrastructure ranks 20. A 20 on infrastructure places Gateway Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, parking sits at 41 and quietness at 37. Against every street in the city, Gateway Boulevard ranks 53 on transit and 45 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 63. About 190 major corridors make up the band Gateway Boulevard is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Gateway Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 86.
About 36% of the 451 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 163 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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Gateway Boulevard runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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