Groton Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Groton Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Groton Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (71). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Groton Street, with 31 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 61 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name illegal parking. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 27 reports, then sewer at 14. Reports on Groton Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. About 33 reports per 100 homes sit on Groton Street, counting every category.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Groton Street. PLUTO counts 169 residential buildings and 183 homes on Groton Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 68, with traffic safety at 30. Groton Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 55 and infrastructure at 38. Transit ranks 50 and food nearby 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Groton Street ranks 71 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Groton Street is housing, at 99.

None of the 183 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Groton Street runs through Forest Hills, 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).

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