Butler Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Butler Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Butler Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and food nearby (27). Street crime (13) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Unsanitary condition leads the 311 file on Butler Street, with 20 reports. Across every category, 65 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name unsanitary condition. Blocked driveway follows with 13 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 13. Reports on Butler Street span 33 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Butler Street carries roughly 63 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Butler Street carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Butler Street, 16 violations of it. Behind it the file holds plumbing (14 violations) and paint and lead (12). 64 residential buildings on Butler Street hold the 103 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 87, with housing at 13. A 13 on housing places Butler Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 78 and parking at 34. The citywide frame puts transit at 21 and tree cover at 20. Butler Street ranks 27 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Butler Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
Of the 103 homes on file, none 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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Butler Street runs through East Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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