32 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 32 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 32 Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and tree cover (99). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 32 Avenue, with 484 reports, and parking ranks 13 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 32 Avenue holds 1,356 reports, and illegal parking is 36% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 395 reports, then residential noise at 154. Reports on 32 Avenue span 87 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 32 Avenue carries roughly 83 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 32 Avenue carries 41 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 32 Avenue is pests, at 79 violations. Bed bugs follows at 47 violations, then paint and lead at 24. PLUTO counts 737 residential buildings and 1,637 homes on 32 Avenue, with 111 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on 32 Avenue have injured 163 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 32 Avenue ranks 72 on housing and 19 on traffic safety. That 19 on traffic safety puts 32 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 53 and infrastructure at 35 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 32 Avenue ranks 65 on food nearby and 25 on transit. 32 Avenue ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
About 13% of the 1,637 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 218 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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32 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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