Junction Boulevard, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Junction Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against major corridors. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Junction Boulevard in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (41) and tree cover (92). Street crime (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity leads the 311 file on Junction Boulevard, with 439 reports. Across every category, 1,055 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name drug activity. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 169 reports, then dirty condition at 158. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Junction Boulevard carries roughly 83 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Junction Boulevard carries 47 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Junction Boulevard is pests, at 59 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (48 violations) and bed bugs (48). City housing records put 1,271 homes in 262 residential buildings on Junction Boulevard, 76 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Junction Boulevard holds about 4.9 homes.
NYPD records 235 people injured in crashes on Junction Boulevard since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 40 among major corridors and parking ranks 31. That 31 on parking puts Junction Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. Housing ranks 39 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 35. Food nearby ranks 88 and transit 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Junction Boulevard ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band Junction Boulevard is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Junction Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 41.
30% of the 1,271 homes recorded on Junction Boulevard are rent-stabilized, 384 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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Junction Boulevard runs through Corona, North Corona and 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).