74 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 74 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 74 Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (58) and tree cover (88). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 74 Avenue, with 135 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 204 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 66% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (23 reports) and rodent (19). The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 515 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
74 Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 14 violations on file. City housing records put 515 homes in 168 residential buildings on 74 Avenue, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 74 Avenue holds about 3.1 homes.
Among smaller avenues, 74 Avenue ranks 55 on traffic safety and 33 on parking. That 33 on parking puts 74 Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 52 and housing at 51. Against every street in the city, 74 Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 23 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 74 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 58.
2% of the 515 homes recorded on 74 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 10 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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74 Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, Glendale and Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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