Elk Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Elk Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Elk Drive in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and transit (57). Quietness (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Elk Drive, with 20 reports. The whole 311 file on Elk Drive holds 68 reports, and blocked driveway is 29% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. The file runs across 20 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 225 homes on file, that is about 30 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Elk Drive carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 10 residential buildings on Elk Drive hold the 225 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
Among quiet residential streets, Elk Drive ranks 52 on housing and 30 on cleanliness. A 30 on cleanliness places Elk Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 51 and traffic safety at 43 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Elk Drive ranks 51 on food nearby and 34 on tree cover. Elk Drive ranks 57 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Elk Drive is infrastructure, at 88.
About 72% of the 225 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 161 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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Elk Drive runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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