49 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 49 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 49 Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and tree cover (82). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 49 Avenue, with 549 reports, and parking ranks 4 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 49 Avenue holds 758 reports, and illegal parking is 72% of it. Derelict vehicles is the next most-filed at 172 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 121. Reports on 49 Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 949 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on 49 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 49 Avenue is pests, at 26 violations. Bed bugs follows at 26 violations. 203 residential buildings on 49 Avenue hold the 949 homes on file, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on 49 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 89 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 10. 49 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 68 and cleanliness at 24 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 80 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where 49 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 949 homes on file, 104 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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49 Avenue runs through Long Island City, Corona and Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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