Hancock Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Hancock Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Hancock Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and food nearby (92). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Hancock Street, with 51 reports, and parking ranks 8 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 234 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway follows with 43 reports, and dirty condition with 36. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hancock Street. Divided by the homes on file, Hancock Street carries roughly 123 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Hancock Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hancock Street is pests, at 17 violations. Bed bugs follows at 14 violations. PLUTO counts 43 residential buildings and 190 homes on Hancock Street, with 22 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Hancock Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 30 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 12. That 12 on traffic safety puts Hancock Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 20 and quietness at 18. Against every street in the city, Hancock Street ranks 77 on transit and 50 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Hancock Street, at 92. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Hancock Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hancock Street is infrastructure, at 71.
About 28% of the 190 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 51 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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Hancock Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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