Vanderveer Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Vanderveer Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.

Calm 69, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Vanderveer Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (100) and tree cover (76). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

More 311 reports on Vanderveer Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 39 of them. Across every category, 114 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name blocked driveway. Residential noise follows with 22 reports, and illegal parking with 21. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Vanderveer Street. The 311 file works out to about 39 reports for every 100 homes on Vanderveer Street.

The HPD file on Vanderveer Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 263 residential buildings on Vanderveer Street hold the 289 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 100, with quietness at 25. A 25 on quietness places Vanderveer Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 82 and infrastructure at 41. Against every street in the city, Vanderveer Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Vanderveer Street ranks 76 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Vanderveer Street is cleanliness, at 100.

None of the 289 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

Vanderveer Street runs through Queens Village, 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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