Barclay Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Barclay Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Barclay Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (93). Parking (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Barclay Avenue, with 142 reports, and parking ranks 25 among busy avenues. Across every category, 484 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (134 reports) and heat and hot water (48). The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Barclay Avenue carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Barclay Avenue carries 45 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Barclay Avenue is paint and lead, at 56 violations. Pests accounts for 49 more, and doors for 42. City housing records put 1,142 homes in 93 residential buildings on Barclay Avenue, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on Barclay Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 91 among busy avenues and housing ranks 66. Barclay Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 86 and traffic safety at 80. Tree cover ranks 70 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Barclay Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
36% of the 1,142 homes recorded on Barclay Avenue are rent-stabilized, 409 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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Barclay Avenue runs through Murray Hill and Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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