Van Kleeck Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Van Kleeck Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 63, 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 Van Kleeck Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (76). Housing (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Van Kleeck Street, with 41 reports. Across every category, 204 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Paint and plaster is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then unsanitary condition at 30. The file runs across 25 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 362 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Van Kleeck Street carries 33 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Van Kleeck Street is paint and lead, at 54 violations. Pests accounts for 27 more, and doors for 24. 9 residential buildings on Van Kleeck Street hold the 362 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 40 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Van Kleeck Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 90 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 27. Van Kleeck Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 81 and infrastructure at 45. The citywide frame puts transit at 68 and tree cover at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Van Kleeck Street, at 76. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Van Kleeck Street is traffic safety, at 94.
The housing file puts 80% of the 362 homes on Van Kleeck Street in rent stabilization, 290 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 Kleeck Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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