28 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 28 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 28 Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (99). Transit (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 28 Avenue, with 401 reports. The whole 311 file on 28 Avenue holds 1,012 reports, and illegal parking is 40% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 165 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 80. Reports on 28 Avenue span 82 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,799 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 58 Class C violations on 28 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 28 Avenue is pests, at 63 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 38 more, and doors for 35. The housing file lists 636 residential buildings on 28 Avenue holding 1,799 homes, with 171 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 77 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 74 among busy avenues and parking ranks 34. A 34 on parking places 28 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 65 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 39. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 28 Avenue, at 99. 28 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where 28 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 1,799 homes on file, 374 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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28 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, College Point and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).