Hunter Street, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 84 out of 100. How does Hunter Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 84 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hunter Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (97). Tree cover (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Hunter Street, with 45 reports. The whole 311 file on Hunter Street holds 180 reports, and illegal parking is 25% of it. Residential noise follows with 18 reports. In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hunter Street. Divided by the homes on file, Hunter Street carries roughly 15 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Hunter Street carries 15 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 1,193 homes in 10 residential buildings on Hunter Street, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Hunter Street holds about 119 homes.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Hunter Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 89 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 75. That 75 on parking puts Hunter Street in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 87 on the same scale, with housing at 79. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 94 and tree cover at 24. Hunter Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Hunter Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 87% of the 1,193 homes on file, 1,033 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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Hunter Street runs through Long Island City, 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).