Saunders Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Saunders Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Saunders Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and transit (89). Housing (50) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Saunders Street, with 160 reports. Across every category, 551 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 157 reports, and non-emergency police matter with 134. Reports on Saunders Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on Saunders Street.
HPD has cited 56 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Saunders Street, 69 violations of it. Pests follows at 49 violations, then doors at 35. City housing records put 2,158 homes in 130 residential buildings on Saunders Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 21 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Saunders Street holds about 17 homes.
Reported crashes on Saunders Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 72 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 55. That 55 on quietness puts Saunders Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 66 and infrastructure at 59. Food nearby ranks 85 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Saunders Street ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Saunders Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Saunders Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 86.
The housing file puts 39% of the 2,158 homes on Saunders Street in rent stabilization, 846 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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Saunders Street runs through Rego Park and Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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