Talbot Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Talbot Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 57, 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 Talbot Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (68). Quietness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Talbot Street, with 53 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 146 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then blocked driveway at 19. Reports on Talbot Street span 28 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 39 reports for every 100 homes on Talbot Street.
The HPD file on Talbot Street carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Talbot Street, 20 violations of it. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 378 homes on Talbot Street, with 19 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Talbot Street holds about 16 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Talbot Street have injured no one.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 91, with parking at 47. A 47 on parking places Talbot Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 69 and infrastructure at 66. Against every street in the city, Talbot Street ranks 59 on transit and 34 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Talbot Street, at 68. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 36% of the 378 homes on file, 135 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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Talbot Street runs through Kew Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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