40 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 40 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 40 Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and tree cover (84). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 40 Avenue, with 163 reports. The whole 311 file on 40 Avenue holds 596 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 66 reports, then blocked driveway at 51. The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 578 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 40 Avenue carries 9 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 130 residential buildings and 578 homes on 40 Avenue, with 18 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 40 Avenue have injured 27 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 72, with parking at 14. 40 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 41 and quietness at 32. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 37. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 40 Avenue, at 84. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 40 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 40 Avenue is housing, at 88.
The housing file puts 12% of the 578 homes on 40 Avenue in rent stabilization, 53 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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40 Avenue runs through Queensbridge, Bayside and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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