Palmetto Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Palmetto Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Palmetto Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (56) and transit (91). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Palmetto Street, with 271 reports, and parking ranks 20 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 841 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 111 reports, then blocked driveway at 82. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,047 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 73 Class C violations on Palmetto Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Palmetto Street is pests, at 60 violations. Bed bugs follows at 55 violations, then paint and lead at 29. City housing records put 1,047 homes in 299 residential buildings on Palmetto Street, 150 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 44, with housing at 31. That 31 on housing puts Palmetto Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 38 and cleanliness at 35. Against every street in the city, Palmetto Street ranks 91 on food nearby and 86 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Palmetto Street, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Palmetto Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Palmetto Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 56.
The housing file puts 4% of the 1,047 homes on Palmetto Street in rent stabilization, 41 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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Palmetto Street runs through Ridgewood, 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).