Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Queens: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against major corridors. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Rockaway Beach Boulevard in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (59) and tree cover (99). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, with 507 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. Across every category, 1,735 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 301 reports, then illegal parking at 291. Reports on Rockaway Beach Boulevard span 101 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Rockaway Beach Boulevard carries roughly 91 reports per 100 of them.
Rockaway Beach Boulevard carries 70 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 65 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (47 violations) and paint and lead (37). PLUTO counts 266 residential buildings and 1,902 homes on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, with 43 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Rockaway Beach Boulevard holds about 7.2 homes.
Since 2021, 167 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 43 among major corridors and housing ranks 25. That 25 on housing puts Rockaway Beach Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts parking at 36 and infrastructure at 32 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Rockaway Beach Boulevard ranks 41 on transit and 35 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Rockaway Beach Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
19% of the 1,902 homes recorded on Rockaway Beach Boulevard are rent-stabilized, 363 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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Rockaway Beach Boulevard runs through Breezy Point and Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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