Heyson Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Heyson Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Heyson Road in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (49). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Heyson Road carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 8 residential buildings on Heyson Road hold the 191 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Heyson Road holds about 24 homes.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 86, with housing at 79. That 79 on housing puts Heyson Road in the strongest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 84 and parking at 80. Against every street in the city, Heyson Road ranks 33 on transit and 31 on food nearby. Heyson Road ranks 49 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Heyson Road ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 96.
None of the 191 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.
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Heyson Road runs through Far Rockaway, 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).