Palermo Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Palermo Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.

Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 17, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Palermo Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (95) and tree cover (20). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Palermo Street. 36 residential buildings on Palermo Street hold the 38 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Palermo Street have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 77 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 9. A 9 on infrastructure places Palermo Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 61 on the same scale, with quietness at 26. The citywide frame puts transit at 18 and food nearby at 12. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Palermo Street, at 20. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Palermo Street is scored inside.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.

None of the 38 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Palermo Street runs through Jamaica Estates, 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).

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