Brinkerhoff Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 17 out of 100. How does Brinkerhoff Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 17 out of 100.
Calm 14, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Brinkerhoff Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (33) and tree cover (47). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal dumping is the most-filed complaint on Brinkerhoff Avenue, with 17 reports. The whole 311 file on Brinkerhoff Avenue holds 58 reports, and illegal dumping is 29% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 16 reports. Reports on Brinkerhoff Avenue span 28 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 47 homes on file, that is about 123 reports per 100 homes.
Brinkerhoff Avenue carries 3 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. PLUTO counts 46 residential buildings and 47 homes on Brinkerhoff Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 19, with housing at 6. That 6 on housing puts Brinkerhoff Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 12 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 8. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Brinkerhoff Avenue ranks 47 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 33.
Of the 47 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Brinkerhoff Avenue runs through St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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