33 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 33 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 33 Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 33 Avenue, with 216 reports. Across every category, 448 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (85 reports) and water system (57). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on 33 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 33 Avenue carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 33 Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 33 Avenue is pests, at 29 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 19 violations. 553 residential buildings on 33 Avenue hold the 992 homes on file, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 33 Avenue have injured 38 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 74 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 44. A 44 on traffic safety places 33 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 56 and cleanliness at 47 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 33 Avenue ranks 97 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 33 Avenue is housing, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 992 homes on file, 126 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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33 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).