35 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 35 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts 35 Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (100). Transit (30) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 35 Avenue, with 1,047 reports. Across every category, 4,126 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (499 reports) and heat and hot water (400). In all, 105 distinct 311 categories are represented on 35 Avenue. Set against the 7,438 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on 35 Avenue carries 332 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 35 Avenue, 230 violations of it. Doors accounts for 210 more, and paint and lead for 166. 553 residential buildings on 35 Avenue hold the 7,438 homes on file, 167 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 46 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 35 Avenue holds about 13 homes.

NYPD records 276 people injured in crashes on 35 Avenue since 2021.

Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 57, with parking at 36. 35 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 50 and traffic safety at 42 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 35 Avenue is scored inside.

Cleanliness is where 35 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 57.

The housing file puts 34% of the 7,438 homes on 35 Avenue in rent stabilization, 2,490 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

35 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, Jackson Heights and Bayside, 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).

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