Ash Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Ash Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Ash Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and food nearby (76). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity leads the 311 file on Ash Avenue, with 340 reports. Across every category, 730 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name drug activity. Heat and hot water follows with 126 reports, and residential noise with 63. The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. About 94 reports per 100 homes sit on Ash Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Ash Avenue carries 147 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ash Avenue is paint and lead, at 106 violations. Doors follows at 99 violations, then pests at 85. The housing file lists 74 residential buildings on Ash Avenue holding 774 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Ash Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Ash Avenue ranks 93 on traffic safety and 30 on quietness. A 30 on quietness places Ash Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 89 and infrastructure at 86 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ash Avenue, at 76. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ash Avenue is cleanliness, at 94.
The housing file puts 56% of the 774 homes on Ash Avenue in rent stabilization, 433 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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Ash Avenue runs through Flushing and East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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