Van Horn Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Van Horn Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Horn Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and food nearby (80). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Horn Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 19 of them. The whole 311 file on Van Horn Street holds 86 reports, and blocked driveway is 22% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 16 reports, then unsanitary condition at 11. In all, 27 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Horn Street. Divided by the homes on file, Van Horn Street carries roughly 79 reports per 100 of them.
Van Horn Street carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Van Horn Street is pests, at 11 violations. Behind it the file holds doors, at 10 violations. City housing records put 109 homes in 39 residential buildings on Van Horn Street, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Van Horn Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 42, with housing at 10. Van Horn Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. The card also puts parking at 30 and cleanliness at 25 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Van Horn Street ranks 76 on transit and 39 on tree cover. Van Horn Street ranks 80 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Van Horn Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
About 15% of the 109 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 16 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 Horn Street runs through Elmhurst and Rego Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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