Catalpa Avenue, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does Catalpa Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Catalpa Avenue in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and food nearby (91). Parking (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Catalpa Avenue, with 176 reports, and parking ranks 39 among busy avenues. Across every category, 431 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 56 reports, and blocked driveway with 43. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 712 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 23 Class C violations on Catalpa Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 43 violations on file. Pests accounts for 33 more, and doors for 18. 194 residential buildings on Catalpa Avenue hold the 712 homes on file, 91 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 86 among busy avenues and housing ranks 76. Catalpa Avenue sits in the strongest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 81 and quietness at 79. Against every street in the city, Catalpa Avenue ranks 86 on transit and 83 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Catalpa Avenue, at 91. Catalpa Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 712 homes on file, 128 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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Catalpa Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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