Kessel Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Kessel Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Kessel Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (75) and tree cover (89). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Kessel Street name damaged tree than any other category, 25 of them. Across every category, 120 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name damaged tree. After that the file runs to missed collection (21 reports) and water system (18). The file runs across 36 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Kessel Street carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Kessel Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 213 residential buildings on Kessel Street holding 234 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Kessel Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Kessel Street ranks 63 on parking and 25 on traffic safety. A 25 on traffic safety places Kessel Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 35 and cleanliness at 25 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Kessel Street ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Kessel Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Kessel Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 75.
None of the 234 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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Kessel Street runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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