Caffrey Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Caffrey Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Caffrey Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (68). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Caffrey Avenue, with 49 reports, and parking ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 216 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 34 reports, and blocked driveway with 16. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Caffrey Avenue. About 86 reports per 100 homes sit on Caffrey Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Caffrey Avenue carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 93 residential buildings and 250 homes on Caffrey Avenue, with 4 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 54, with quietness at 14. That 14 on quietness puts Caffrey Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 53 on the same scale, with housing at 19. The citywide frame puts transit at 40 and food nearby at 27. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Caffrey Avenue, at 68. Caffrey Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Caffrey Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
47% of the 250 homes recorded on Caffrey Avenue are rent-stabilized, 115 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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Caffrey Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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