Rau Court, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Rau Court in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.

Calm 41, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Rau Court in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (73) and transit (45). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.

The HPD file on Rau Court holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 24 residential buildings on Rau Court hold the 34 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Rau Court have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 46 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 10. That 10 on cleanliness puts Rau Court in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 35 and parking at 16 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 18 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 45. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Rau Court is scored inside.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 57.

None of the 34 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Rau Court runs through Howard Beach, 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).

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