5 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 5 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against major corridors. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts 5 Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and tree cover (84). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on 5 Avenue, with 20 reports. Across every category, 108 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name blocked driveway. Water system is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then residential noise at 13. Reports on 5 Avenue span 36 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 5 Avenue carries roughly 40 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 5 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 267 homes in 173 residential buildings on 5 Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 84, with infrastructure at 19. That 19 on infrastructure puts 5 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, housing sits at 61 and parking at 24. Against every street in the city, 5 Avenue ranks 12 on food nearby and 1 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 5 Avenue, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 5 Avenue is traffic safety, at 94.
None of the 267 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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5 Avenue runs through College Point, Whitestone and Breezy Point, 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).