Case Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Case Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.

Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Case Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (66) and food nearby (89). Housing (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Case Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 237 of them. The whole 311 file on Case Street holds 556 reports, and heat and hot water is 43% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 92 reports, and unsanitary condition with 55. The file runs across 46 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 374 homes on file, that is about 149 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 105 Class C violations on Case Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 28 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 86 violations on file. Pests follows at 69 violations, then plumbing at 49. City housing records put 374 homes in 67 residential buildings on Case Street, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.6 homes each.

Reported crashes on Case Street have injured 10 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 47 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 24. A 24 on parking places Case Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 47 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 28. The citywide frame puts transit at 72 and tree cover at 48. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Case Street, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

Quietness is where Case Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 66.

The housing file puts 47% of the 374 homes on Case Street in rent stabilization, 177 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Case Street runs through 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).

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