Crescent Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Crescent Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Crescent Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (80) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Crescent Street. Reported crashes here have injured 126 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 29 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Crescent Street is led by heat and hot water, with 734 reports. Heat and hot water accounts for 55% of the 1,334 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 393 reports, and unsanitary condition with 214. In all, 100 distinct 311 categories are represented on Crescent Street. Divided by the homes on file, Crescent Street carries roughly 25 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 122 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 93 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (81 violations) and bed bugs (59). PLUTO counts 441 residential buildings and 5,305 homes on Crescent Street, with 165 walk-ups and 25 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 79, with cleanliness at 47. That 47 on cleanliness puts Crescent Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 59 and housing at 59 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 85 and transit 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. Crescent Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Crescent Street is quietness, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 49% of the 5,305 homes on file, 2,583 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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Crescent Street runs through Astoria, Queensbridge and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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