34 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 34 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 34 Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (66) and tree cover (100). Quietness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 34 Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 798 of them. The whole 311 file on 34 Avenue holds 4,323 reports, and heat and hot water is 18% of it. Illegal parking follows with 707 reports, and residential noise with 612. The file runs across 110 distinct 311 categories in all. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 34 Avenue, counting every category.
34 Avenue carries 430 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 299 violations on file. Doors accounts for 279 more, and pests for 273. City housing records put 5,643 homes in 722 residential buildings on 34 Avenue, 220 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 34 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7.8 homes each.
NYPD records 232 people injured in crashes on 34 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 34 Avenue ranks 47 on cleanliness and 40 on traffic safety. 34 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Parking ranks 44 on the same scale, with housing at 41. Against every street in the city, 34 Avenue ranks 80 on food nearby and 43 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 34 Avenue, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 52.
The housing file puts 26% of the 5,643 homes on 34 Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,469 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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34 Avenue runs through Jackson Heights, North Corona and Flushing, 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).