Walnut Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Walnut Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Walnut Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and food nearby (77). Transit (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Walnut Street span 12 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Walnut Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 16 residential buildings on Walnut Street hold the 37 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Walnut Street holds about 2.3 homes.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 76 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 48. A 48 on quietness places Walnut Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 60 and cleanliness at 49. The citywide frame puts transit at 24 and tree cover at 24. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Walnut Street, at 77. Walnut Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
None of the 37 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.
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Walnut Street runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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