Lafayette Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Lafayette Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Lafayette Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and food nearby (62). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lafayette Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Lafayette Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 40 residential buildings on Lafayette Street hold the 80 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 77 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 31. That 31 on infrastructure puts Lafayette Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 63 and quietness at 36 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Lafayette Street ranks 53 on transit and 31 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Lafayette Street, at 62. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where Lafayette Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
Of the 80 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Lafayette Street runs through Ozone Park, 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).