Chelsea Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Chelsea Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Chelsea Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and transit (66). Traffic safety (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all.
Chelsea Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 45 residential buildings on Chelsea Street holding 108 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 86 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 51. Chelsea Street sits in the stronger half of quiet residential streets on quietness. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 66 and housing at 61. Tree cover ranks 50 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Chelsea Street ranks 66 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Parking is where Chelsea Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 89.
About 2% of the 108 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2 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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Chelsea Street runs through Jamaica Estates, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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