Baxter Avenue, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Baxter Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Baxter Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (95); street crime (12) is the weak spot.

On the record

Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Baxter Avenue, with 27 reports. HPD has cited 25 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 20 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, parking ranks 99 among smaller avenues. About 61% of the 286 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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