41 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 41 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.

Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts 41 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (80) and tree cover (98). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.

On the record

Drug activity is the most-filed complaint on 41 Avenue, with 2,465 reports. Across every category, 5,246 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name drug activity. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (1,533 reports) and illegal parking (818). The file runs across 102 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 5,658 homes on file, that is about 93 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 189 Class C violations on 41 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 41 Avenue, 195 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 151 violations, then bed bugs at 113. The housing file lists 609 residential buildings on 41 Avenue holding 5,658 homes, with 219 walk-ups and 36 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 9.3 homes each.

NYPD records 124 people injured in crashes on 41 Avenue since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 66 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 38. That 38 on infrastructure puts 41 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 64 and parking at 40. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 92 and transit at 51. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 41 Avenue, at 98. 41 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.

Cleanliness is where 41 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.

About 53% of the 5,658 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,951 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

41 Avenue runs through Corona, Flushing and Queensbridge, 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).

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