Burns Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does Burns Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Burns Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (85) and food nearby (89). Infrastructure (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Burns Street, with 142 reports. Across every category, 344 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 63 reports, and heat and hot water with 59. In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on Burns Street. Divided by the homes on file, Burns Street carries roughly 24 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Burns Street carries 34 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Burns Street, 25 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 23 violations, then pests at 12. 271 residential buildings on Burns Street hold the 1,413 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Burns Street have injured 7 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 78 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 58. Burns Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 76 and quietness at 65. Against every street in the city, Burns Street ranks 81 on transit and 76 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Burns Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Burns Street is cleanliness, at 85.
25% of the 1,413 homes recorded on Burns Street are rent-stabilized, 353 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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Burns Street runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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