Ascan Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Ascan Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ascan Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (80) and tree cover (73). Traffic safety (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street condition is the most-filed complaint on Ascan Avenue, with 21 reports. The whole 311 file on Ascan Avenue holds 96 reports, and street condition is 22% of it. After that the file runs to noise (10 reports) and illegal parking (10). Reports on Ascan Avenue span 38 distinct 311 categories. About 33 reports per 100 homes sit on Ascan Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Ascan Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 295 homes in 117 residential buildings on Ascan Avenue, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Ascan Avenue holds about 2.5 homes.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on Ascan Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 75 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 28. That 28 on cleanliness puts Ascan Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 52 and infrastructure at 32. Against every street in the city, Ascan Avenue ranks 67 on food nearby and 50 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ascan Avenue, at 73. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Ascan Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 295 on Ascan Avenue.
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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Ascan Avenue runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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