Springfield Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Springfield Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.

Calm 42, ranked against major corridors. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.

That puts Springfield Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (63) and tree cover (100). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Springfield Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 431 of them. Across every category, 1,264 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 115 reports, then street condition at 109. The file runs across 100 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,312 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on Springfield Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Springfield Boulevard is pests, at 59 violations. Paint and lead follows at 23 violations, then heat and hot water at 18. City housing records put 2,312 homes in 782 residential buildings on Springfield Boulevard, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on Springfield Boulevard have injured 436 people since 2021.

Against major corridors, housing comes in at 52, with traffic safety at 20. Springfield Boulevard sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 48 on the same scale, with parking at 39. Against every street in the city, Springfield Boulevard ranks 45 on food nearby and 15 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Springfield Boulevard, at 100. Springfield Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.

Quietness is where Springfield Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 63.

About 11% of the 2,312 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 250 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

Springfield Boulevard runs through Queens Village, St. Albans and Laurelton, 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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