37 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 37 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 37 Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (59) and tree cover (99). Traffic safety (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 37 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 37 Avenue have injured 256 people, and traffic safety ranks 35 among busy avenues. The 311 file on 37 Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 809 reports. Across every category, 3,490 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 348 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 267. In all, 106 distinct 311 categories are represented on 37 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 37 Avenue carries roughly 103 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 244 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 230 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (219 violations) and doors (148). City housing records put 3,399 homes in 511 residential buildings on 37 Avenue, 173 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 37 Avenue holds about 6.7 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 55 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 38. That 38 on quietness puts 37 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 46 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 43. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 89 and transit at 58. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 37 Avenue, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where 37 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 59.
The housing file puts 29% of the 3,399 homes on 37 Avenue in rent stabilization, 980 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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37 Avenue runs through Jackson Heights, Queensbridge and North Corona, 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).