4 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does 4 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 4 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and tree cover (41). Transit (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on 4 Avenue, with 12 reports. Reports on 4 Avenue span 11 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on 4 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 28 residential buildings on 4 Avenue hold the 28 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, 4 Avenue ranks 56 on parking and 11 on infrastructure. An 11 on infrastructure places 4 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 49 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 13. Food nearby ranks 12 and transit 1, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 4 Avenue, at 41. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 4 Avenue is housing, at 61.
None of the 28 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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4 Avenue runs through Breezy Point and Whitestone, 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).