Pearson Street, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does Pearson Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Pearson Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and transit (99). Tree cover (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Pearson Street name commercial noise than any other category, 168 of them. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 16 reports, then residential noise at 15. Reports on Pearson Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. About 15 reports per 100 homes sit on Pearson Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Pearson Street. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Pearson Street, 11 violations of it. PLUTO counts 11 residential buildings and 342 homes on Pearson Street, with 1 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 31 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Pearson Street ranks 94 on housing and 58 on cleanliness. That 58 on cleanliness puts Pearson Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 87 on the same scale, with quietness at 68. Food nearby ranks 90 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Pearson Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file puts 57% of the 342 homes on Pearson Street in rent stabilization, 194 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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Pearson Street runs through Long Island City, 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).