Prince Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Prince Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Prince Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and food nearby (100). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Prince Street. Reported crashes here have injured 58 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 82 reports. The whole 311 file on Prince Street holds 190 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. After that the file runs to food establishment (35 reports) and vendor enforcement (34). Reports on Prince Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 351 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Prince Street carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 351 homes in 21 residential buildings on Prince Street, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Prince Street ranks 76 on quietness and 22 on cleanliness. Prince Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 68 and infrastructure at 26 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Prince Street ranks 100 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Prince Street is housing, at 93.
Of the 351 homes on file, none 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.
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Prince Street runs through 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).