Waltham Street, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Waltham Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 30, 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 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and transit (70); traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Waltham Street. 29 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 36 reports. Cleanliness ranks 97, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 67 against every street in the city. None of the 189 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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