Almeda Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Almeda Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Almeda Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and tree cover (71). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Almeda Avenue, with 46 reports. Across every category, 273 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (42 reports) and unsanitary condition (40). Reports on Almeda Avenue span 47 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 164 reports for every 100 homes on Almeda Avenue.
HPD has cited 54 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 33 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Almeda Avenue is pests, at 33 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (29 violations) and paint and lead (12). PLUTO counts 99 residential buildings and 166 homes on Almeda Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 50, with quietness at 10. That 10 on quietness puts Almeda Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 32 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 13. The citywide frame puts transit at 47 and food nearby at 12. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. Almeda Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Of the 166 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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Almeda Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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