Layton Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Layton Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 Layton Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (100) and transit (93). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Layton Street, with 312 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Across every category, 555 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (76 reports) and unsanitary condition (50). In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Layton Street. About 193 reports per 100 homes sit on Layton Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Layton Street carries 92 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 32 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Layton Street, 110 violations of it. Pests follows at 108 violations, then mold at 35. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on Layton Street holding 288 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 32 homes to a building.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Layton Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 52 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 3. A 3 on housing places Layton Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 28 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 10. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and tree cover at 13. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Layton Street is infrastructure, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 51% of the 288 homes on file, 148 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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Layton Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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