47 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 47 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 47 Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (72) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 47 Avenue, with 357 reports. The whole 311 file on 47 Avenue holds 1,385 reports, and illegal parking is 26% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 198 reports, and residential noise with 122. Reports on 47 Avenue span 94 distinct 311 categories. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on 47 Avenue, counting every category.
47 Avenue carries 80 Class C violations on its HPD file, 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 47 Avenue, 99 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 73 violations, then paint and lead at 46. The housing file lists 494 residential buildings on 47 Avenue holding 2,175 homes, with 164 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 47 Avenue have injured 101 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 63 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 38. 47 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 56 and parking at 42. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 36. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 47 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
The housing file puts 19% of the 2,175 homes on 47 Avenue in rent stabilization, 419 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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47 Avenue runs through Sunnyside, Auburndale and Bayside, 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).