29 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 29 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 29 Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (57) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 29 Avenue, with 203 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among busy avenues. Across every category, 703 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 109 reports, then heat and hot water at 65. In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on 29 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 29 Avenue carries roughly 113 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 24 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Windows is what HPD writes up most on 29 Avenue, 67 violations of it. Pests accounts for 63 more, and structure for 50. City housing records put 621 homes in 383 residential buildings on 29 Avenue, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 51 among busy avenues and parking ranks 5. A 5 on parking places 29 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 34 and infrastructure at 33. Against every street in the city, 29 Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 18 on transit. 29 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 29 Avenue is quietness, at 57.
Of the 621 homes on file, none 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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29 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, Bayside and Auburndale, 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).