Caldwell Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Caldwell Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Caldwell Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and tree cover (77). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Caldwell Avenue, with 336 reports, and parking ranks 2 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Caldwell Avenue holds 497 reports, and illegal parking is 68% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (41 reports) and abandoned vehicle (31). The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 343 homes on file, that is about 145 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Caldwell Avenue. HPD's most-cited category on Caldwell Avenue is pests, at 13 violations. PLUTO counts 177 residential buildings and 343 homes on Caldwell Avenue, with 48 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 52 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 36. That 36 on traffic safety puts Caldwell Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 40 and cleanliness at 37. Against every street in the city, Caldwell Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 33 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Caldwell Avenue, at 77. Caldwell Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Caldwell Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 74.
Of the 343 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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Caldwell Avenue runs through Middle Village and Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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