Centre Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Centre Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Centre Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (58) and food nearby (91). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Centre Street, with 25 reports, and parking ranks 13 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 71 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name blocked driveway. Reports on Centre Street span 25 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Centre Street carries roughly 76 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 94 homes in 29 residential buildings on Centre Street, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 49, with cleanliness at 23. Centre Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 28 and housing at 27 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 88 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Centre Street, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Centre Street is quietness, at 58.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 94 on Centre Street.
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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Centre Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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