Beech Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Beech Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against busy avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Beech Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and food nearby (69). Transit (41) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Beech Avenue, with 65 reports. The whole 311 file on Beech Avenue holds 207 reports, and blocked driveway is 31% of it. Illegal parking follows with 59 reports, and heat and hot water with 24. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. About 29 reports per 100 homes sit on Beech Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Beech Avenue carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Beech Avenue is pests, at 32 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (13 violations) and safety devices (13). The housing file lists 101 residential buildings on Beech Avenue holding 722 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 93, with parking at 53. Beech Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 91 and traffic safety at 61 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Beech Avenue ranks 69 on tree cover and 41 on transit. Beech Avenue ranks 69 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
38% of the 722 homes recorded on Beech Avenue are rent-stabilized, 274 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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Beech Avenue runs through East Flushing and Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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