Rockaway Boulevard, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Rockaway Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against major corridors. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Rockaway Boulevard in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (55) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Rockaway Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 455 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 2,278 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (147 reports) and street condition (132). In all, 91 distinct 311 categories are represented on Rockaway Boulevard. Set against the 750 homes on file, that is about 304 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on Rockaway Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Rockaway Boulevard is pests, at 111 violations. Bed bugs follows at 36 violations, then paint and lead at 25. City housing records put 750 homes in 369 residential buildings on Rockaway Boulevard, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
NYPD records 833 people injured in crashes on Rockaway Boulevard since 2021.
Against major corridors, quietness comes in at 54, with traffic safety at 18. That 18 on traffic safety puts Rockaway Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts housing at 44 and parking at 32 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Rockaway Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 55.
About 5% of the 750 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 38 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 Boulevard runs through South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens & Brookville and Rosedale, 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).