Lawrence Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Lawrence Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Lawrence Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and tree cover (50). Food nearby (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Lawrence Street, with 30 reports. The whole 311 file on Lawrence Street holds 107 reports, and blocked driveway is 28% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (16 reports) and building and use (10). In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lawrence Street. Set against the 620 homes on file, that is about 17 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Lawrence Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 82 residential buildings and 620 homes on Lawrence Street, with 7 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Lawrence Street holds about 7.6 homes.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 96, with traffic safety at 35. A 35 on traffic safety places Lawrence Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 71 and housing at 63. The citywide frame puts transit at 21 and food nearby at 18. Lawrence Street ranks 50 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
9% of the 620 homes recorded on Lawrence Street are rent-stabilized, 53 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
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Lawrence Street runs through Queensboro Hill, 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).