9 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 9 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against major corridors. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts 9 Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (81) and tree cover (91). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 9 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 215 of them. The whole 311 file on 9 Avenue holds 351 reports, and illegal parking is 61% of it. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (45 reports) and blocked driveway (38). The file runs across 40 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 558 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on 9 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 275 residential buildings on 9 Avenue hold the 558 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 9 Avenue holds about 2 homes.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 62 among major corridors and parking ranks 6. 9 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on parking. The card also puts housing at 59 and infrastructure at 36 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 9 Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby and 3 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 9 Avenue, at 91. About 190 major corridors make up the band 9 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 9 Avenue is traffic safety, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 558 homes on file, 12 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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9 Avenue runs through Whitestone, College Point 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).