Stephen Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Stephen Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Stephen Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (82) and food nearby (84). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Stephen Street, with 40 reports, and parking ranks 23 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 176 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 20 reports, then derelict vehicles at 13. Reports on Stephen Street span 40 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 55 reports for every 100 homes on Stephen Street.
Stephen Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Stephen Street, 16 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 13 violations. City housing records put 319 homes in 102 residential buildings on Stephen Street, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Stephen Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 76 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 40. A 40 on housing places Stephen Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 76 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 58. Against every street in the city, Stephen Street ranks 79 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
None of the 319 homes on file 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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Stephen Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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