Northern Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Northern Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against major corridors. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Northern Boulevard in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (51) and tree cover (100). Quietness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Northern Boulevard, with 896 reports. The whole 311 file on Northern Boulevard holds 4,803 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. After that the file runs to commercial noise (668 reports) and blocked driveway (362). The file runs across 120 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Northern Boulevard carries roughly 94 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Northern Boulevard carries 165 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Northern Boulevard, 156 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (78 violations) and bed bugs (74). 344 residential buildings on Northern Boulevard hold the 5,086 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 22 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 15 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Northern Boulevard have injured 1,300 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 44 among major corridors and traffic safety ranks 22. A 22 on traffic safety places Northern Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Parking ranks 42 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 27. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Northern Boulevard is housing, at 49.
Rent stabilization covers about 41% of the 5,086 homes on file, 2,032 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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Northern Boulevard runs through Flushing, Murray Hill and Astoria & Woodside, 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).