Norton Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Norton Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Norton Drive in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (93) and tree cover (30). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Norton Drive, with 12 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. Reports on Norton Drive span 15 distinct 311 categories.

The HPD file on Norton Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 50 homes in 40 residential buildings on Norton Drive, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 85, with infrastructure at 41. A 41 on infrastructure places Norton Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 73 and traffic safety at 71. The citywide frame puts transit at 24 and food nearby at 12. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Norton Drive, at 30. Norton Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.

Quietness is where Norton Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.

None of the 50 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Norton Drive runs through Far Rockaway, 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).

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