44 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 44 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 44 Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (82) and food nearby (85). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 44 Avenue, with 140 reports, and parking ranks 16 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 44 Avenue holds 480 reports, and blocked driveway is 29% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 108 reports, then residential noise at 87. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 611 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
44 Avenue carries 32 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 44 Avenue, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (34 violations) and doors (15). PLUTO counts 243 residential buildings and 611 homes on 44 Avenue, with 101 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 44 Avenue holds about 2.5 homes.
Reported crashes on 44 Avenue have injured 16 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 53 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 27. 44 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 47 and quietness at 32 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 75 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 44 Avenue, at 85. 44 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
The housing file puts 4% of the 611 homes on 44 Avenue in rent stabilization, 22 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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44 Avenue runs through Corona, Woodside and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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