Purves Street, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does Purves Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 96, 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 Purves Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and transit (97). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Purves Street, with 42 reports. The whole 311 file on Purves Street holds 182 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 37 reports, and residential noise with 33. Reports on Purves Street span 23 distinct 311 categories. About 25 reports per 100 homes sit on Purves Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Purves Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 5 residential buildings on Purves Street hold the 718 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Purves Street holds about 144 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Purves Street ranks 81 on traffic safety and 46 on parking. A 46 on parking places Purves Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 69 and infrastructure at 52 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Purves Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Purves Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
About 40% of the 718 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 286 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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