39 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 39 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 39 Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 39 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 494 of them. Across every category, 2,084 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 333 reports, and residential noise with 137. In all, 93 distinct 311 categories are represented on 39 Avenue. About 63 reports per 100 homes sit on 39 Avenue, counting every category.
39 Avenue carries 76 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 39 Avenue, 95 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 92 violations, then paint and lead at 43. 620 residential buildings on 39 Avenue hold the 3,325 homes on file, 154 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 96 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 75 among busy avenues and parking ranks 33. 39 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 75 and traffic safety at 59. Against every street in the city, 39 Avenue ranks 88 on food nearby and 41 on transit. 39 Avenue ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
About 21% of the 3,325 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 668 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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39 Avenue runs through Bayside, North Corona and Auburndale, 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).