Thornton Place, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Thornton Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Thornton Place in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (53). Tree cover (33) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Thornton Place, with 14 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 12 reports. The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 371 homes on file, that is about 9 reports per 100 homes.
Thornton Place carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 371 homes in 36 residential buildings on Thornton Place, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 91, with traffic safety at 57. Thornton Place sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 88 and cleanliness at 75 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 51 and tree cover 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Thornton Place ranks 53 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Thornton Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
The housing file puts 3% of the 371 homes on Thornton Place in rent stabilization, 10 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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Thornton Place runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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