Ransom Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Ransom Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 66, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Ransom Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (95) and tree cover (46). Transit (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

The file runs across 8 distinct 311 categories in all.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Ransom Street. The housing file lists 38 residential buildings on Ransom Street holding 91 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.

Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 84, with traffic safety at 36. That 36 on traffic safety puts Ransom Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 81 on the same scale, with parking at 51. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and transit at 2. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 46. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Housing is where Ransom Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 95.

Of the 91 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Ransom Street runs through Bellerose, 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).

The full report for Ransom Street