Malt Drive, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does Malt Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 96, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Malt Drive in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and food nearby (62). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Malt Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 106 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 89% of the 119 reports on file here. Noise follows with 13 reports. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Malt Drive. The 311 file works out to about 9 reports for every 100 homes on Malt Drive.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Malt Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Malt Drive have injured no one.
Among built-up residential streets, Malt Drive ranks 99 on traffic safety and 78 on parking. Malt Drive sits in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 98 and quietness at 92 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 55 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Malt Drive, at 62. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Malt Drive is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Malt Drive is cleanliness, at 99.
Of the 1,387 homes on file, none 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.
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Malt Drive runs through Long Island City, 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).