Judge Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Judge Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Judge Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (90). Housing (21) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Judge Street, with 83 reports. Across every category, 284 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway follows with 36 reports, and residential noise with 30. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on Judge Street. Set against the 546 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.

Judge Street carries 69 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Judge Street, 33 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (30 violations) and paint and lead (15). The housing file lists 70 residential buildings on Judge Street holding 546 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.8 homes each.

Among built-up residential streets, Judge Street ranks 84 on quietness and 44 on parking. Judge Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 71 and cleanliness at 70. Transit ranks 77 and tree cover 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Judge Street, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

Infrastructure is where Judge Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 93.

About 34% of the 546 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 187 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Judge Street runs through Elmhurst, 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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