73 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 73 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 73 Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on 73 Avenue, with 226 reports. Across every category, 1,180 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (206 reports) and abandoned vehicle (75). Reports on 73 Avenue span 78 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 73 Avenue carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
73 Avenue carries 225 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on 73 Avenue, 116 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (73 violations) and pests (73). PLUTO counts 312 residential buildings and 1,351 homes on 73 Avenue, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 73 Avenue have injured 134 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 37, with traffic safety at 11. 73 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 28 on the same scale, with housing at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and transit at 19. 73 Avenue ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where 73 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 81.
The housing file puts 47% of the 1,351 homes on 73 Avenue in rent stabilization, 639 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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73 Avenue runs through Fresh Meadows, Oakland Gardens and Pomonok, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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