Ithaca Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Ithaca Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Ithaca Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and food nearby (91). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Ithaca Street, with 49 reports. The whole 311 file on Ithaca Street holds 479 reports, and residential noise is 10% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 39 reports, then heat and hot water at 35. Reports on Ithaca Street span 37 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 69 reports for every 100 homes on Ithaca Street.
HPD has cited 101 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ithaca Street is paint and lead, at 46 violations. Doors follows at 45 violations, then pests at 36. 90 residential buildings on Ithaca Street hold the 690 homes on file, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Ithaca Street holds about 7.7 homes.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Ithaca Street ranks 55 on quietness and 22 on cleanliness. That 22 on cleanliness puts Ithaca Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 47 and parking at 39. Against every street in the city, Ithaca Street ranks 77 on transit and 25 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Ithaca Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ithaca Street is infrastructure, at 87.
47% of the 690 homes recorded on Ithaca Street are rent-stabilized, 321 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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Ithaca 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).