Union Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Union Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Union Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and food nearby (93). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Union Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Union Street have injured 126 people, and traffic safety ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 208 of them. The whole 311 file on Union Street holds 689 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (122 reports) and illegal dumping (71). Reports on Union Street span 79 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 24 reports for every 100 homes on Union Street.
Union Street carries 71 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Union Street is doors, at 48 violations. Bed bugs follows at 26 violations, then heat and hot water at 19. The housing file lists 145 residential buildings on Union Street holding 2,819 homes, with 30 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 67, with cleanliness at 63. Union Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 67 and housing at 67. Tree cover ranks 87 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Union Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Union Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
The housing file puts 10% of the 2,819 homes on Union Street in rent stabilization, 269 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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Union Street runs through Flushing, Murray Hill and East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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