3 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does 3 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against major corridors. Access 18, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts 3 Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and tree cover (61). Transit (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on 3 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 125 reports for every 100 homes on 3 Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 3 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 44 residential buildings on 3 Avenue holding 56 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against major corridors, housing comes in at 61, with quietness at 2. A 2 on quietness places 3 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 45 on the same scale, with parking at 10. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 1. 3 Avenue ranks 61 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
Of the 56 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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3 Avenue runs through Whitestone and College Point, 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).