Borden Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Borden Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Borden Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and tree cover (62). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Borden Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 254 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Borden Avenue, with 314 reports. Across every category, 685 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (51 reports) and abandoned vehicle (39). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on Borden Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 123 reports for every 100 homes on Borden Avenue.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Borden Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 23 residential buildings on Borden Avenue holding 558 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 93 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 4. That 4 on parking puts Borden Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 22 and infrastructure at 9. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Borden Avenue, at 62. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Borden Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Borden Avenue is cleanliness, at 100.
The housing file puts 55% of the 558 homes on Borden Avenue in rent stabilization, 306 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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Borden Avenue runs through Sunnyside, Long Island City and Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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