Parsons Boulevard, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Parsons Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against major corridors. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Parsons Boulevard in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (37) and tree cover (100). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity is the most-filed complaint on Parsons Boulevard, with 3,586 reports. Across every category, 13,034 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name drug activity. Traffic is the next most-filed at 3,468 reports, then house of worship noise at 1,965. Reports on Parsons Boulevard span 106 distinct 311 categories. About 287 reports per 100 homes sit on Parsons Boulevard, counting every category.
Parsons Boulevard carries 356 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Parsons Boulevard is pests, at 277 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 249 more, and plumbing for 183. PLUTO counts 585 residential buildings and 4,537 homes on Parsons Boulevard, with 100 walk-ups and 23 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 400 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 37 among major corridors and housing ranks 13. Parsons Boulevard sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on housing. Cleanliness ranks 30 on the same scale, with parking at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 59 and transit at 45. Parsons Boulevard ranks 100 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 37.
The housing file puts 40% of the 4,537 homes on Parsons Boulevard in rent stabilization, 1,755 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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Parsons Boulevard runs through Pomonok, Murray Hill and East Flushing, 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).