Olcott Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Olcott Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Olcott Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (68) and food nearby (75). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Olcott Street, with 18 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Olcott Street holds 38 reports, and blocked driveway is 47% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Olcott Street. The 311 file works out to about 49 reports for every 100 homes on Olcott Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Olcott Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 58 residential buildings on Olcott Street holding 78 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 42, with parking at 28. Olcott Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 36 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 34. Against every street in the city, Olcott Street ranks 48 on tree cover and 39 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Olcott Street is housing, at 68.
Of the 78 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Olcott Street runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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