Reads Lane, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Reads Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Reads Lane in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and tree cover (63). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Missed collection leads the 311 file on Reads Lane, with 10 reports. The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Reads Lane holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 49 homes in 45 residential buildings on Reads Lane, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among quiet residential streets, Reads Lane ranks 85 on housing and 17 on traffic safety. Reads Lane sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 79 and cleanliness at 60. Against every street in the city, Reads Lane ranks 20 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Reads Lane ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Reads Lane ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
None of the 49 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.
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Reads Lane runs through Far Rockaway, 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).