Lefferts Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Lefferts Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against major corridors. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lefferts Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (52) and tree cover (96). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lefferts Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 410 of them, and parking ranks 16 among major corridors. Illegal parking accounts for 19% of the 2,173 reports on file here. After that the file runs to commercial noise (291 reports) and blocked driveway (281). Reports on Lefferts Boulevard span 97 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 112 reports for every 100 homes on Lefferts Boulevard.
Inspectors have written 72 Class C violations on Lefferts Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lefferts Boulevard is pests, at 121 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (66 violations) and doors (50). The housing file lists 615 residential buildings on Lefferts Boulevard holding 1,941 homes, with 115 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
NYPD records 269 people injured in crashes on Lefferts Boulevard since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 33 among major corridors and quietness ranks 18. That 18 on quietness puts Lefferts Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Housing ranks 26 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 23. Against every street in the city, Lefferts Boulevard ranks 55 on food nearby and 54 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Lefferts Boulevard, at 96. About 190 major corridors make up the band Lefferts Boulevard is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Lefferts Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 41.
The housing file puts 15% of the 1,941 homes on Lefferts Boulevard in rent stabilization, 297 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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Lefferts Boulevard runs through South Ozone Park, Kew Gardens and Richmond 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).