Madison Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Madison Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Madison Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (78) and transit (92). Housing (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Madison Street, with 509 reports. Across every category, 1,409 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (163 reports) and blocked driveway (121). Reports on Madison Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 94 reports for every 100 homes on Madison Street.
Inspectors have written 173 Class C violations on Madison Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 120 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (93 violations) and bed bugs (70). 249 residential buildings on Madison Street hold the 1,502 homes on file, 175 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Madison Street holds about 6 homes.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on Madison Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 61 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 18. An 18 on parking places Madison Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 45 and infrastructure at 25 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Madison Street ranks 91 on food nearby and 88 on tree cover. Madison Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Madison Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Madison Street is cleanliness, at 78.
34% of the 1,502 homes recorded on Madison Street are rent-stabilized, 515 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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Madison Street runs through Ridgewood and Elmhurst, 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).