Powells Cove Boulevard, Queens: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Powells Cove Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against major corridors. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts Powells Cove Boulevard in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (83). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Powells Cove Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 108 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 46% of the 237 reports on file here. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then noise at 31. Reports on Powells Cove Boulevard span 39 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,100 homes on file, that is about 22 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Powells Cove Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 141 residential buildings on Powells Cove Boulevard holding 1,100 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.8 homes each.
Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 92, with parking at 30. Powells Cove Boulevard sits in the weaker half of major corridors on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 72 and quietness at 64 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Powells Cove Boulevard ranks 23 on food nearby and 1 on transit. Powells Cove Boulevard ranks 83 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 where Powells Cove Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 99.
The housing file puts 1% of the 1,100 homes on Powells Cove Boulevard in rent stabilization, 15 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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Powells Cove Boulevard runs through Whitestone and College Point, 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).