Linden Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Linden Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.

Calm 41, 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 Linden Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (59) and tree cover (99). Traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.

On the record

The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Linden Boulevard. Reported crashes here have injured 661 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 16 among major corridors. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 213 of them. The whole 311 file on Linden Boulevard holds 1,378 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. After that the file runs to commercial noise (153 reports) and residential noise (130). The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. About 98 reports per 100 homes sit on Linden Boulevard, counting every category.

Linden Boulevard carries 66 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Linden Boulevard, 101 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (35 violations) and heat and hot water (24). City housing records put 1,403 homes in 745 residential buildings on Linden Boulevard, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.

Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 56, with infrastructure at 26. Linden Boulevard sits in the weaker half of major corridors on infrastructure. Parking ranks 47 on the same scale, with housing at 41. Against every street in the city, Linden Boulevard ranks 51 on food nearby and 19 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Linden Boulevard, at 99. About 190 major corridors make up the band Linden Boulevard is scored inside.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.

None of the 1,403 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Linden Boulevard runs through St. Albans, South Jamaica and South 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).

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