Van Nostrand Court, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Van Nostrand Court in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.

Calm 56, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Van Nostrand Court in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (86) and food nearby (80). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

The HPD file on Van Nostrand Court holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 24 homes on Van Nostrand Court, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Van Nostrand Court since 2021.

Among quiet residential streets, Van Nostrand Court ranks 79 on quietness and 8 on parking. That 8 on parking puts Van Nostrand Court in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 64 and cleanliness at 36. Transit ranks 6 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Nostrand Court 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.

Infrastructure is where Van Nostrand Court ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 86.

None of the 24 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Van Nostrand Court runs through Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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