Russell Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Russell Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Russell Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and transit (52). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Russell Street span 10 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Russell Street. PLUTO counts 39 residential buildings and 39 homes on Russell Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Russell Street have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 78, with cleanliness at 51. That 51 on cleanliness puts Russell Street in the stronger half of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 65 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 62. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and tree cover at 7. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Russell Street, at 52. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Russell Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Russell Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 83.
Of the 39 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.
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Russell Street runs through Howard Beach, 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).