116 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does 116 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against busy avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 116 Avenue in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (67) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 116 Avenue, with 270 reports. Across every category, 1,156 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (216 reports) and blocked driveway (112). Reports on 116 Avenue span 78 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 143 reports for every 100 homes on 116 Avenue.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on 116 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 48 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead, at 10 violations. 587 residential buildings on 116 Avenue hold the 808 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 161 people injured in crashes on 116 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 116 Avenue ranks 48 on cleanliness and 1 on traffic safety. A 1 on traffic safety places 116 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 4 on the same scale, with parking at 3. Against every street in the city, 116 Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 116 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
None of the 808 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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116 Avenue runs through Baisley Park, Cambria Heights and St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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