Ruscoe Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Ruscoe Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Ruscoe Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and food nearby (27). Street crime (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Sidewalk condition is the most-filed complaint on Ruscoe Street, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on Ruscoe Street holds 43 reports, and sidewalk condition is 23% of it. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ruscoe Street. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on Ruscoe Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Ruscoe Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 37 residential buildings on Ruscoe Street holding 76 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Ruscoe Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 47 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 20. A 20 on cleanliness places Ruscoe Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 31 and quietness at 23 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 23 and tree cover 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ruscoe Street, at 27. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Ruscoe Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Ruscoe Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 84.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 76 on Ruscoe 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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Ruscoe Street runs through South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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