Admiral Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Admiral Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.

Calm 57, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Admiral Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (97) and food nearby (68). Parking (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Admiral Avenue, with 172 reports, and parking ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 210 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 82% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 26 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 13. The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. About 124 reports per 100 homes sit on Admiral Avenue, counting every category.

The HPD file on Admiral Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 84 residential buildings on Admiral Avenue hold the 169 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Admiral Avenue have injured no one.

Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 91, with quietness at 23. Admiral Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 70 and infrastructure at 47. Against every street in the city, Admiral Avenue ranks 65 on transit and 35 on tree cover. Admiral Avenue ranks 68 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Admiral Avenue is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Admiral Avenue is traffic safety, at 97.

None of the 169 homes on file 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Admiral Avenue runs through Ridgewood, 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).

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