Smith Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Smith Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.

Calm 43, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Smith Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (88) and tree cover (29). Parking (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Smith Street, with 25 reports, and parking ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Smith Street holds 58 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. Reports on Smith Street span 11 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Smith Street carries roughly 157 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Smith Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 22 residential buildings on Smith Street hold the 37 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 49, with infrastructure at 5. Smith Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 48 and traffic safety at 12 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 27 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 29. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Smith Street is quietness, at 88.

Of the 37 homes on file, none 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Smith Street runs through Baisley Park, 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).

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