Calamus Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Calamus Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Calamus Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (78) and transit (46). Street crime (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Calamus Avenue, with 64 reports. The whole 311 file on Calamus Avenue holds 136 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. Sidewalk condition follows with 15 reports, and water system with 14. Reports on Calamus Avenue span 33 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Calamus Avenue carries roughly 39 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Calamus Avenue. The housing file lists 159 residential buildings on Calamus Avenue holding 346 homes, with 23 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Calamus Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 63 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 27. A 27 on traffic safety places Calamus Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 38 and parking at 29 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 45 and tree cover 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Calamus Avenue, at 46. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Calamus Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 78.
Of the 346 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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Calamus Avenue runs through Woodside and Elmhurst, 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).