Neilson Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Neilson Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 54, 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 Neilson Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and transit (55). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Neilson Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 51 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 21% of the 243 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 46 reports, and residential noise with 30. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Neilson Street. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on Neilson Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 55 Class C violations on Neilson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 44 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 31 more, and doors for 26. The housing file lists 44 residential buildings on Neilson Street holding 443 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 78 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 63. Neilson Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 75 and parking at 66. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Neilson Street, at 55. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
49% of the 443 homes recorded on Neilson Street are rent-stabilized, 220 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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Neilson Street runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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