Vernon Boulevard, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Vernon Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against major corridors. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Vernon Boulevard in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (88). Quietness (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Vernon Boulevard, with 275 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. Across every category, 1,125 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (259 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (107). Reports on Vernon Boulevard span 88 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Vernon Boulevard carries roughly 37 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Vernon Boulevard, 16 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 16 violations. 99 residential buildings on Vernon Boulevard hold the 3,018 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 30 homes each.
NYPD records 132 people injured in crashes on Vernon Boulevard since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 71 among major corridors and parking ranks 43. A 43 on parking places Vernon Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts traffic safety at 62 and cleanliness at 60 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Vernon Boulevard, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 3,018 homes on file, 214 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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Vernon Boulevard runs through Queensbridge, Long Island City and Old 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).