Decatur Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Decatur Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Decatur Street in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (32) and food nearby (75). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Decatur Street name illegal parking than any other category, 136 of them, and parking ranks 6 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Decatur Street holds 339 reports, and illegal parking is 40% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (92 reports) and blocked driveway (61). In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on Decatur Street. The 311 file works out to about 194 reports for every 100 homes on Decatur Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Decatur Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. City housing records put 175 homes in 74 residential buildings on Decatur Street, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Decatur Street holds about 2.4 homes.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Decatur Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 25, with quietness at 10. Decatur Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Traffic safety ranks 16 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 12. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and tree cover at 59. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Decatur Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Decatur Street is housing, at 32.
None of the 175 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Decatur Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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