Nansen Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Nansen Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nansen Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and food nearby (74). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Nansen Street, with 21 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 85 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (20 reports) and damaged tree (12). In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nansen Street. Set against the 152 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Nansen Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 138 residential buildings on Nansen Street holding 152 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among quiet residential streets, Nansen Street ranks 61 on quietness and 18 on parking. Nansen Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 44 and traffic safety at 34 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 68 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Nansen Street ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Nansen Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Nansen Street is housing, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 152 on Nansen 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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Nansen Street runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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