Atlantic Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does Atlantic Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against major corridors. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Atlantic Avenue in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (30) and tree cover (81). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Atlantic Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 887 of them, and parking ranks 4 among major corridors. Illegal parking accounts for 57% of the 1,563 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (435 reports) and commercial noise (171). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Atlantic Avenue carries roughly 386 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 47 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Atlantic Avenue is pests, at 45 violations. Heat and hot water accounts for 15 more, and bed bugs for 14. PLUTO counts 128 residential buildings and 405 homes on Atlantic Avenue, with 16 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Atlantic Avenue have injured 414 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Atlantic Avenue ranks 20 on infrastructure and 6 on traffic safety. A 6 on traffic safety places Atlantic Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, quietness sits at 18 and cleanliness at 14. Transit ranks 53 and food nearby 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Atlantic Avenue, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 30.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 405 homes on file, 14 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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Atlantic Avenue runs through Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and Ozone Park, 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).