43 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 43 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 43 Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (66) and tree cover (100). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 43 Avenue, with 582 reports. Across every category, 2,581 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 319 reports, then residential noise at 290. Reports on 43 Avenue span 93 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 72 reports for every 100 homes on 43 Avenue.
The HPD file on 43 Avenue carries 136 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 43 Avenue, 146 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 143 violations, then doors at 80. The housing file lists 835 residential buildings on 43 Avenue holding 3,608 homes, with 350 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 172 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 63 among busy avenues and parking ranks 39. That 39 on parking puts 43 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 44 and traffic safety at 42 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 86 and transit 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 43 Avenue, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 3,608 homes on file, 965 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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43 Avenue runs through Sunnyside, Bayside 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).