36 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 36 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 36 Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (82) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 36 Avenue name commercial noise than any other category, 183 of them. The whole 311 file on 36 Avenue holds 726 reports, and commercial noise is 25% of it. Illegal parking follows with 159 reports, and blocked driveway with 119. Reports on 36 Avenue span 88 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 36 Avenue carries roughly 101 reports per 100 of them.
36 Avenue carries 25 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 36 Avenue, 19 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 19 more. PLUTO counts 248 residential buildings and 719 homes on 36 Avenue, with 28 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
NYPD records 84 people injured in crashes on 36 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 66 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 33. A 33 on traffic safety places 36 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 62 and parking at 60 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 78 and transit 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 36 Avenue ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 36 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
32% of the 719 homes recorded on 36 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 233 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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36 Avenue runs through Bayside, Queensbridge and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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