Archer Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Archer Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Archer Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and transit (93). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Dirty condition leads the 311 file on Archer Avenue, with 55 reports. Across every category, 534 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name dirty condition. Illegal parking follows with 49 reports, and heat and hot water with 44. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 607 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 82 Class C violations on Archer Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Archer Avenue is pests, at 25 violations. Doors accounts for 23 more, and structure for 23.
Since 2021, 111 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Archer Avenue ranks 54 on quietness and 3 on traffic safety. A 3 on traffic safety places Archer Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 21 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 11. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and tree cover at 40. Archer Avenue ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
None of the 607 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.
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Archer Avenue runs through Jamaica, 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).