Britton Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Britton Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Britton Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (93). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Britton Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 49 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 14% of the 343 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 49 reports, and plumbing with 30. Reports on Britton Avenue span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 78 reports for every 100 homes on Britton Avenue.
Inspectors have written 43 Class C violations on Britton Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Britton Avenue is pests, at 41 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (30 violations) and plumbing (22). City housing records put 438 homes in 71 residential buildings on Britton Avenue, 35 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Britton Avenue holds about 6.2 homes.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 44, with quietness at 23. A 23 on quietness places Britton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 31 and traffic safety at 27 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Britton Avenue ranks 79 on transit and 42 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Britton Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
35% of the 438 homes recorded on Britton Avenue are rent-stabilized, 153 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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