Hovenden Road, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Hovenden Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.

Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Hovenden Road in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (71) and transit (43). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 6 distinct 311 categories in all.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Hovenden Road. PLUTO counts 20 residential buildings and 21 homes on Hovenden Road, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Hovenden Road have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 60 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 21. Hovenden Road sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 43 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 32. Food nearby ranks 12 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Hovenden Road, at 43. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Hovenden Road is scored inside.

Parking is where Hovenden Road ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 71.

None of the 21 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

Hovenden Road runs through Jamaica Estates, 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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