48 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 48 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 48 Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (77) and tree cover (97). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on 48 Avenue, with 476 reports, and parking ranks 13 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 48 Avenue holds 1,800 reports, and blocked driveway is 26% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 456 reports, then residential noise at 115. Reports on 48 Avenue span 86 distinct 311 categories. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on 48 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 67 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (49 violations) and doors (37). City housing records put 2,393 homes in 479 residential buildings on 48 Avenue, 134 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 48 Avenue holds about 5 homes.
Reported crashes on 48 Avenue have injured 82 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 71 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 37. 48 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 62 and traffic safety at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and transit at 22. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 48 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 48 Avenue is housing, at 77.
1% of the 2,393 homes recorded on 48 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 28 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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48 Avenue runs through Sunnyside, Auburndale and Bayside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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