25 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 25 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 25 Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (67) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 25 Avenue, with 165 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among busy avenues. Across every category, 698 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 123 reports, then dirty condition at 63. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on 25 Avenue. Set against the 1,037 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 25 Avenue carries 32 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 25 Avenue, 33 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 23 more, and doors for 14. City housing records put 1,037 homes in 561 residential buildings on 25 Avenue, 87 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 25 Avenue ranks 59 on quietness and 12 on infrastructure. That 12 on infrastructure puts 25 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 29 on the same scale, with parking at 18. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 25 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 25 Avenue is housing, at 67.
9% of the 1,037 homes recorded on 25 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 92 homes in all.
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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25 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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