Buell Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Buell Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Buell Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and transit (36). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Buell Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 12 of them. In all, 9 distinct 311 categories are represented on Buell Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Buell Street. 22 residential buildings on Buell Street hold the 39 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Buell Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 78, with parking at 17. That 17 on parking puts Buell Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 62 and quietness at 50. Against every street in the city, Buell Street ranks 27 on food nearby and 18 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 36. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Buell Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Buell Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
None of the 39 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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Buell Street runs through East Elmhurst, 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).