Colden Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Colden Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Colden Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and food nearby (77). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Colden Street, with 488 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Colden Street holds 1,866 reports, and residential noise is 26% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (220 reports) and water system (105). In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on Colden Street. The 311 file works out to about 117 reports for every 100 homes on Colden Street.
Colden Street carries 104 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 81 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 78 more, and doors for 35. The housing file lists 54 residential buildings on Colden Street holding 1,589 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 29 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 21 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 70 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 30. Colden Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 62 and traffic safety at 52. Against every street in the city, Colden Street ranks 76 on tree cover and 25 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Colden Street, at 77. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Colden Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Colden Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 87.
About 63% of the 1,589 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,001 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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Colden Street runs through East Flushing and Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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