Dickens Street, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does Dickens Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Dickens Street in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (37) and tree cover (74). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Dickens Street, with 58 reports. Across every category, 181 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name residential noise. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 25 reports. Reports on Dickens Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 151 homes on file, that is about 120 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Dickens Street carries 34 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Dickens Street, 22 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (11 violations) and bed bugs (10). PLUTO counts 82 residential buildings and 151 homes on Dickens Street, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Dickens Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 31 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 14. That 14 on traffic safety puts Dickens Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 20 and quietness at 18. The citywide frame puts transit at 50 and food nearby at 12. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. Dickens Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Dickens Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 37.
None of the 151 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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Dickens Street runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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