Sutphin Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Sutphin Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against major corridors. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sutphin Boulevard in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and tree cover (94). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Mobile food vendor leads the 311 file on Sutphin Boulevard, with 277 reports. Across every category, 1,398 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name mobile food vendor. Illegal parking follows with 107 reports, and heat and hot water with 106. In all, 90 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sutphin Boulevard. Set against the 761 homes on file, that is about 184 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 156 Class C violations on Sutphin Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Sutphin Boulevard, 125 violations of it. Doors follows at 80 violations, then structure at 61. City housing records put 761 homes in 251 residential buildings on Sutphin Boulevard, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Sutphin Boulevard holds about 3 homes.
Since 2021, 300 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Sutphin Boulevard ranks 54 on quietness and 33 on cleanliness. A 33 on cleanliness places Sutphin Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. Infrastructure ranks 42 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 38. Against every street in the city, Sutphin Boulevard ranks 62 on food nearby and 36 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sutphin Boulevard, at 94. Sutphin Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Sutphin Boulevard is parking, at 75.
About 8% of the 761 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 64 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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Sutphin Boulevard runs through Baisley Park, Jamaica and South Jamaica, 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).