Queens Boulevard, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Queens Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against major corridors. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Queens Boulevard in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (59) and tree cover (100). Infrastructure (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Queens Boulevard, with 1,166 reports. Across every category, 4,163 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (648 reports) and street condition (320). The file runs across 117 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 9,816 homes on file, that is about 42 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 207 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 111 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (79 violations) and pests (73). The housing file lists 123 residential buildings on Queens Boulevard holding 9,816 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 42 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 80 homes each.
Reported crashes on Queens Boulevard have injured 876 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Queens Boulevard ranks 45 on housing and 35 on cleanliness. A 35 on cleanliness places Queens Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. Parking ranks 40 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 36. The citywide frame puts transit at 84 and food nearby at 84. Queens 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.
Quietness is where Queens Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 59.
About 25% of the 9,816 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,251 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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Queens Boulevard runs through Forest Hills, Woodside and Elmhurst, 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).