National Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does National Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, 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 National Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and food nearby (92). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity is the most-filed complaint on National Street, with 1,335 reports. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 392 reports, then residential noise at 50. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 88 homes on file, that is about 593 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on National Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 34 residential buildings and 88 homes on National Street, with 9 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on National Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, National Street ranks 74 on parking and 2 on quietness. That 2 on quietness puts National Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 65 and traffic safety at 6 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 74 and tree cover 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band National Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 88 on National Street.
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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National Street runs through Corona, 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).