46 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 46 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 46 Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (98). Parking (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 46 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 307 of them, and parking ranks 22 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 46 Avenue holds 1,222 reports, and illegal parking is 25% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 228 reports, and water system with 92. The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. About 68 reports per 100 homes sit on 46 Avenue, counting every category.
46 Avenue carries 38 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 59 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 43 violations, then paint and lead at 15. 582 residential buildings on 46 Avenue hold the 1,809 homes on file, 119 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
NYPD records 70 people injured in crashes on 46 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 48 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 25. That 25 on cleanliness puts 46 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 44 and quietness at 43. Against every street in the city, 46 Avenue ranks 73 on food nearby and 34 on transit. 46 Avenue ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 46 Avenue is housing, at 78.
About 7% of the 1,809 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 123 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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46 Avenue runs through Auburndale, East Flushing and Bayside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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