6 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 6 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against major corridors. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts 6 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and tree cover (87). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 6 Avenue, with 94 reports. Across every category, 227 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 55 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 13. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on 6 Avenue. About 65 reports per 100 homes sit on 6 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 6 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 6 Avenue is pests, at 12 violations. City housing records put 349 homes in 264 residential buildings on 6 Avenue, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among major corridors, 6 Avenue ranks 56 on housing and 8 on parking. 6 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on parking. The card also puts quietness at 42 and infrastructure at 25 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 1, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 190 major corridors make up the band 6 Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 349 on 6 Avenue.
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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6 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).