Burchell Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Burchell Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Burchell Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (45). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Burchell Avenue, with 21 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Burchell Avenue holds 35 reports, and residential noise is 60% of it. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Burchell Avenue. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on Burchell Avenue, counting every category.
Burchell Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 12 violations on file. City housing records put 80 homes in 47 residential buildings on Burchell Avenue, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Burchell Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 84, with quietness at 14. Burchell Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts parking at 82 and housing at 20 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Burchell Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 12 on tree cover. Burchell Avenue ranks 45 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Burchell Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Burchell Avenue is infrastructure, at 85.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 80 on Burchell Avenue.
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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