Waltham Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Waltham Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Waltham Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (55) and transit (70). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Waltham Street. 29 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 36 reports. The whole 311 file on Waltham Street holds 146 reports, and blocked driveway is 25% of it. Dirty condition follows with 32 reports, and illegal parking with 32. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Waltham Street. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on Waltham Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Waltham Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. 71 residential buildings on Waltham Street hold the 189 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Waltham Street holds about 2.7 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 38 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 14. A 14 on quietness places Waltham Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 29 and parking at 22 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Waltham Street ranks 67 on food nearby and 57 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 70. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Waltham Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 55.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 189 on Waltham Street.
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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Waltham Street runs through Jamaica and South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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