45 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 45 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 45 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (80) and tree cover (94). Quietness (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 45 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 308 of them. Across every category, 1,710 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (253 reports) and residential noise (214). Reports on 45 Avenue span 89 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on 45 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 73 Class C violations here, 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 45 Avenue, 88 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (69 violations) and paint and lead (44). The housing file lists 565 residential buildings on 45 Avenue holding 2,876 homes, with 147 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 94 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 45 Avenue ranks 65 on housing and 43 on parking. That 43 on parking puts 45 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 58 and traffic safety at 49 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 45 Avenue ranks 80 on food nearby and 46 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 45 Avenue, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 45 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 45 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.
About 25% of the 2,876 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 612 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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45 Avenue runs through East Flushing, 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).