Kew Gardens Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Kew Gardens Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Kew Gardens Road in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and transit (86). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Kew Gardens Road, with 122 reports. Across every category, 274 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (53 reports) and blocked driveway (24). Reports on Kew Gardens Road span 57 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 439 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
Kew Gardens Road carries 14 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Kew Gardens Road, 15 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Kew Gardens Road holding 439 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.7 homes each.
Reported crashes on Kew Gardens Road have injured 8 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Kew Gardens Road ranks 68 on quietness and 24 on parking. That 24 on parking puts Kew Gardens Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 41 and housing at 35. Tree cover ranks 75 and food nearby 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Kew Gardens Road ranks 86 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Kew Gardens Road is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
The housing file puts 29% of the 439 homes on Kew Gardens Road in rent stabilization, 127 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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Kew Gardens Road runs through Kew Gardens, 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).