Merrick Boulevard, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Merrick Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against major corridors. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Merrick Boulevard in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (60) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Merrick Boulevard. Reported crashes here have injured 564 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among major corridors. Commercial noise draws more reports than anything else here, 127 of them. The whole 311 file on Merrick Boulevard holds 1,456 reports, and commercial noise is 9% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (117 reports) and illegal parking (108). The file runs across 91 distinct 311 categories in all. About 207 reports per 100 homes sit on Merrick Boulevard, counting every category.
HPD has cited 174 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Merrick Boulevard, 97 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 79 more, and pests for 78. 119 residential buildings on Merrick Boulevard hold the 705 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.9 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 27 among major corridors and infrastructure ranks 11. Merrick Boulevard sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on infrastructure. Measured against major corridors, quietness sits at 24 and housing at 16. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Merrick Boulevard ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Parking is where Merrick Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 60.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 705 homes on file, 250 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
- 169 Place, Queens
- 171 Street, Queens
- 108 Drive, Queens
- 106 Avenue, Queens
- Nadal Place, Queens
- Fern Place, Queens
Merrick Boulevard runs through St. Albans, Laurelton and South Jamaica, 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).