Van Doren Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Van Doren Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Doren Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (51) and food nearby (53). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Doren Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 52 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Van Doren Street holds 219 reports, and blocked driveway is 24% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (48 reports) and illegal parking (41). Reports on Van Doren Street span 30 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 113 reports for every 100 homes on Van Doren Street.
The HPD file on Van Doren Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 194 homes in 69 residential buildings on Van Doren Street, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Van Doren Street holds about 2.8 homes.
Among quiet residential streets, Van Doren Street ranks 42 on infrastructure and 14 on parking. That 14 on parking puts Van Doren Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts housing at 38 and quietness at 31 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Van Doren Street ranks 41 on transit and 26 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. Van Doren Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Van Doren Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 51.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 194 homes on file, 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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