Main Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Main Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 62, 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 Main Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Main Street. 352 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Vendor enforcement draws more reports than anything else here, 510 of them. Across every category, 1,019 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name vendor enforcement. Illegal parking follows with 396 reports, and consumer complaint with 127. Reports on Main Street span 103 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Main Street carries roughly 66 reports per 100 of them.
Main Street carries 51 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Main Street is doors, at 28 violations. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then pests at 14. 96 residential buildings on Main Street hold the 1,539 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 69 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 14. Main Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 69 and parking at 55. Against every street in the city, Main Street ranks 78 on food nearby and 39 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Main Street, at 97. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Main Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Main Street is quietness, at 73.
The housing file puts 23% of the 1,539 homes on Main Street in rent stabilization, 357 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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Main Street runs through Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Hills and Flushing, 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).