27 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 27 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 27 Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and tree cover (95). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 27 Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 323 of them. The whole 311 file on 27 Avenue holds 1,132 reports, and residential noise is 29% of it. Illegal parking follows with 220 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 111. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on 27 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 75 reports for every 100 homes on 27 Avenue.
HPD has cited 102 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 27 Avenue is doors, at 63 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (58 violations) and paint and lead (31). City housing records put 1,505 homes in 489 residential buildings on 27 Avenue, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 27 Avenue holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 70, with quietness at 16. That 16 on quietness puts 27 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and housing at 46 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 27 Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby and 12 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 27 Avenue, at 95. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 27 Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 27 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 34% of the 1,505 homes on file, 514 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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27 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, Old Astoria and Bay Terrace, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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