Braddock Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Braddock Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against busy avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Braddock Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and tree cover (86). Transit (15) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Braddock Avenue. 45 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 23 among busy avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 50 reports. The whole 311 file on Braddock Avenue holds 149 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. After that the file runs to consumer complaint (27 reports) and maintenance or facility (21). Reports on Braddock Avenue span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Braddock Avenue carries roughly 53 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Braddock Avenue. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Braddock Avenue, 12 violations of it. Doors accounts for 11 more. City housing records put 280 homes in 73 residential buildings on Braddock Avenue, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Braddock Avenue ranks 87 on quietness and 23 on traffic safety. A 23 on traffic safety places Braddock Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 76 and infrastructure at 45 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Braddock Avenue ranks 35 on food nearby and 15 on transit. Braddock Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Braddock Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Braddock Avenue is housing, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 31% of the 280 homes on file, 87 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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Braddock Avenue runs through Bellerose and Queens Village, 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).