Langston Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Langston Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 92, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Langston Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and tree cover (65). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 11 distinct 311 categories are represented on Langston Avenue.
The HPD file on Langston Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 372 homes in 3 residential buildings on Langston Avenue, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 124 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 99, with traffic safety at 77. Langston Avenue sits in the strongest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 98 on the same scale, with parking at 87. Transit ranks 19 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. Langston Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Housing is where Langston Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 28% of the 372 homes on file, 104 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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Langston Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, 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).