Shore Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Shore Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against major corridors. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts Shore Boulevard in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and tree cover (47). Parking (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Shore Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 72 of them, and parking ranks 4 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on Shore Boulevard holds 512 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (50 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (42). The file runs across 51 distinct 311 categories in all. About 76 reports per 100 homes sit on Shore Boulevard, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on Shore Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 18 violations on file. Doors accounts for 14 more, and pests for 12. PLUTO counts 18 residential buildings and 674 homes on Shore Boulevard, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Shore Boulevard holds about 37 homes.
Reported crashes on Shore Boulevard have injured 6 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 64 among major corridors and quietness ranks 25. Shore Boulevard sits in the weaker half of major corridors on quietness. Measured against major corridors, cleanliness sits at 55 and housing at 28. Against every street in the city, Shore Boulevard ranks 20 on transit and 18 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 47. About 190 major corridors make up the band Shore Boulevard is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Shore Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 87.
10% of the 674 homes recorded on Shore Boulevard are rent-stabilized, 65 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
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Shore Boulevard runs through Astoria and Old Astoria, 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).