Sound Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Sound Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sound Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and food nearby (86). Tree cover (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 9 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sound Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sound Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 10 residential buildings on Sound Street hold the 21 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 48, with housing at 15. That 15 on housing puts Sound Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 48 and cleanliness at 32. Against every street in the city, Sound Street ranks 54 on transit and 5 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Sound Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Sound Street is infrastructure, at 85.
None of the 21 homes on file 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.
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Sound Street runs through 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).