Kissena Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Kissena Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against major corridors. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Kissena Boulevard in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and tree cover (95). Transit (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Kissena Boulevard name residential noise than any other category, 419 of them. Residential noise accounts for 22% of the 1,881 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (304 reports) and drug activity (228). The file runs across 88 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 5,153 homes on file, that is about 37 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 114 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 157 violations on file. Pests accounts for 96 more, and doors for 70. 127 residential buildings on Kissena Boulevard hold the 5,153 homes on file, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Kissena Boulevard holds about 41 homes.
NYPD records 235 people injured in crashes on Kissena Boulevard since 2021.
Among major corridors, Kissena Boulevard ranks 60 on infrastructure and 21 on quietness. That 21 on quietness puts Kissena Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts traffic safety at 54 and housing at 38 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 190 major corridors make up the band Kissena Boulevard is scored inside.
Parking is where Kissena Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 62.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 5,153 homes on file, 1,189 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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Kissena Boulevard runs through Pomonok, Kew Gardens Hills and Flushing, 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).