Curtis Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Curtis Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Curtis Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (32). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Curtis Street, with 39 reports, and parking ranks 14 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 87 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (37 reports) and blocked driveway (30). In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on Curtis Street. The 311 file works out to about 63 reports for every 100 homes on Curtis Street.
The HPD file on Curtis Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 88 residential buildings and 139 homes on Curtis Street, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 92 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 28. That 28 on quietness puts Curtis Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 58 and traffic safety at 33. Food nearby ranks 27 and tree cover 16, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 32. Curtis Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Curtis Street is infrastructure, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 139 on Curtis 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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Curtis Street runs through East Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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