Palo Alto Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Palo Alto Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Palo Alto Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (72) and tree cover (47). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Palo Alto Street, with 26 reports. The whole 311 file on Palo Alto Street holds 44 reports, and residential noise is 59% of it. Reports on Palo Alto Street span 13 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on Palo Alto Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Palo Alto Street. City housing records put 51 homes in 46 residential buildings on Palo Alto Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Palo Alto Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Palo Alto Street ranks 61 on cleanliness and 47 on quietness. That 47 on quietness puts Palo Alto Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 55 and parking at 52. Transit ranks 21 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 47. Palo Alto Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Palo Alto Street is traffic safety, at 72.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 51 on Palo Alto 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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Palo Alto Street runs through Jamaica Estates, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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