61 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 61 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against busy avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 61 Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and tree cover (82). Transit (13) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 61 Avenue, with 51 reports. The whole 311 file on 61 Avenue holds 120 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. Behind it sits street condition, with 25 reports. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on 61 Avenue. About 16 reports per 100 homes sit on 61 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 61 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 53 residential buildings on 61 Avenue hold the 742 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on 61 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 99, with infrastructure at 31. 61 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 98 on the same scale, with parking at 70. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 13. 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.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 742 on 61 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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61 Avenue runs through Douglaston, 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).