8 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 8 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against major corridors. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts 8 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and tree cover (80). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on 8 Avenue, with 36 reports. The whole 311 file on 8 Avenue holds 87 reports, and abandoned vehicle is 41% of it. Residential noise follows with 35 reports, and illegal parking with 33. Reports on 8 Avenue span 29 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 8 Avenue carries roughly 50 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 8 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 136 residential buildings on 8 Avenue holding 174 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 77 among major corridors and parking ranks 14. A 14 on parking places 8 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, housing sits at 42 and infrastructure at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 1. 8 Avenue ranks 80 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 8 Avenue is cleanliness, at 79.
Of the 174 homes on file, none 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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8 Avenue runs through Whitestone, Breezy Point and College Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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