Denman Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Denman Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Denman Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (83) and food nearby (84). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Denman Street, with 187 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 670 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 138 reports, then blocked driveway at 111. Reports on Denman Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 128 reports for every 100 homes on Denman Street.
Denman Street carries 127 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Denman Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (22 violations) and doors (15). 67 residential buildings on Denman Street hold the 523 homes on file, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.8 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 68, with housing at 7. Denman Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 24 and parking at 22 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Denman Street ranks 84 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Denman Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 67% of the 523 homes on file, 352 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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Denman Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).