Van Cleef Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Van Cleef Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Cleef Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (65) and food nearby (39). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Cleef Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 96 of them, and parking ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. Blocked driveway accounts for 28% of the 342 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (38 reports) and illegal parking (22). Reports on Van Cleef Street span 33 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 313 homes on file, that is about 109 reports per 100 homes.
Van Cleef Street carries 4 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Van Cleef Street is bed bugs, at 25 violations. Pests follows at 21 violations. PLUTO counts 90 residential buildings and 313 homes on Van Cleef Street, with 72 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Van Cleef Street holds about 3.5 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 53, with quietness at 7. That 7 on quietness puts Van Cleef Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 47 and cleanliness at 29 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 29 and tree cover 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Cleef Street ranks 39 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Van Cleef Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 9% of the 313 homes on Van Cleef Street in rent stabilization, 27 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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Van Cleef Street runs through Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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