Linden Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Linden Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Linden Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (58) and food nearby (87). Parking (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Linden Street, with 322 reports, and parking ranks 22 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Linden Street holds 686 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 91 reports, then residential noise at 74. Reports on Linden Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 67 reports for every 100 homes on Linden Street.
Inspectors have written 79 Class C violations on Linden Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Linden Street is bed bugs, at 61 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (59 violations) and doors (41). PLUTO counts 303 residential buildings and 1,019 homes on Linden Street, with 144 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Linden Street holds about 3.4 homes.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 53, with housing at 27. That 27 on housing puts Linden Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 43 and traffic safety at 43. Against every street in the city, Linden Street ranks 84 on tree cover and 80 on transit. Linden Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 58.
7% of the 1,019 homes recorded on Linden Street are rent-stabilized, 76 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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Linden Street runs through Ridgewood, 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).