Menahan Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Menahan Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 33, 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 Menahan Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and food nearby (81). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Menahan Street, with 82 reports. Across every category, 462 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 74 reports, then blocked driveway at 48. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 601 homes on file, that is about 77 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Menahan Street carries 87 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Menahan Street, 55 violations of it. Pests follows at 42 violations, then doors at 14. 199 residential buildings on Menahan Street hold the 601 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Menahan Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 40 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 17. A 17 on traffic safety places Menahan Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 37 on the same scale, with housing at 22. Tree cover ranks 74 and transit 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Menahan Street, at 81. 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 42.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 601 on Menahan Street.
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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Menahan Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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