Macnish Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Macnish Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Macnish Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (89). Tree cover (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Macnish Street, with 11 reports. Across every category, 57 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 16 distinct 311 categories are represented on Macnish Street. Set against the 361 homes on file, that is about 16 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Macnish Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 10 violations on file. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 361 homes on Macnish Street, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Macnish Street holds about 120 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Macnish Street have injured no one.
Among built-up residential streets, Macnish Street ranks 94 on traffic safety and 50 on housing. Macnish Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts parking at 94 and quietness at 79 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 88 and tree cover 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Macnish Street, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Macnish Street is infrastructure, at 96.
22% of the 361 homes recorded on Macnish Street are rent-stabilized, 81 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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Macnish 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).