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

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Hanford Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 56, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 14, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Hanford Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (92) and food nearby (35). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Hanford Street span 16 distinct 311 categories. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on Hanford Street, counting every category.

The HPD file on Hanford Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 40 residential buildings on Hanford Street hold the 64 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Hanford Street have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 80 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 10. A 10 on housing places Hanford Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 70 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 49. Against every street in the city, Hanford Street ranks 15 on tree cover and 1 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 35. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Parking is where Hanford Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 92.

Of the 64 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Hanford Street runs through Douglaston, 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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