Pontiac Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Pontiac Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Pontiac Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and tree cover (43). Transit (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Pontiac Street, with 28 reports. Across every category, 75 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 10 reports. Reports on Pontiac Street span 15 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 142 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Pontiac Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. 51 residential buildings on Pontiac Street hold the 142 homes on file, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Pontiac Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 64, with housing at 24. That 24 on housing puts Pontiac Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 49 and parking at 26 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Pontiac Street ranks 43 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 142 on Pontiac 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
- Moline Street, Queens
- Ransom Street, Queens
- Lyman Street, Queens
- Sabre Street, Queens
- 235 Court, Queens
- Winchester Boulevard, Queens
Pontiac Street runs through Bellerose, 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).