90 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 90 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 90 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 90 Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 79 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 39 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 90 Avenue, with 252 reports. Across every category, 1,035 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 196 reports, then blocked driveway at 178. Reports on 90 Avenue span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 45 reports for every 100 homes on 90 Avenue.
Inspectors have written 75 Class C violations on 90 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 76 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 45 more, and doors for 32. City housing records put 2,285 homes in 530 residential buildings on 90 Avenue, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 90 Avenue holds about 4.3 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 61 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 40. A 40 on infrastructure places 90 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 58 and parking at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and transit at 50. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 90 Avenue, at 97. 90 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 20% of the 2,285 homes on file, 464 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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90 Avenue runs through Jamaica, Queens Village and Hollis, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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