38 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 38 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 38 Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (78) and tree cover (97). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 38 Avenue, with 739 reports, and parking ranks 19 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,710 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 383 reports, then residential noise at 233. Reports on 38 Avenue span 92 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,715 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
38 Avenue carries 124 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 38 Avenue is pests, at 108 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 89 more, and doors for 67. 430 residential buildings on 38 Avenue hold the 2,715 homes on file, 181 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 38 Avenue holds about 6.3 homes.
NYPD records 74 people injured in crashes on 38 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 58 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 35. A 35 on cleanliness places 38 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 56 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 55. Food nearby ranks 85 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. 38 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
About 32% of the 2,715 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 829 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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38 Avenue runs through Queensbridge, Bayside 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).