42 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 42 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 42 Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (75) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 42 Avenue, with 253 reports. The whole 311 file on 42 Avenue holds 1,048 reports, and blocked driveway is 24% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 142 reports, then residential noise at 77. Reports on 42 Avenue span 72 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 72 reports for every 100 homes on 42 Avenue.
HPD has cited 75 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 42 Avenue is pests, at 97 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 60 more, and doors for 37. 456 residential buildings on 42 Avenue hold the 1,456 homes on file, 161 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 43 among busy avenues and parking ranks 26. That 26 on parking puts 42 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 87 and transit at 19. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 42 Avenue, at 97. 42 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where 42 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 75.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 1,456 homes on file, 245 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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42 Avenue runs through Bayside, Auburndale and 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).