Central Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Central Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Central Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (86). Traffic safety (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Central Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 68 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 21 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Central Avenue, with 105 reports. Across every category, 538 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 72 reports, then residential noise at 59. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Central Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 72 reports for every 100 homes on Central Avenue.
Inspectors have written 22 Class C violations on Central Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Central Avenue is pests, at 19 violations. Doors follows at 15 violations, then bed bugs at 12. 141 residential buildings on Central Avenue hold the 752 homes on file, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 67 among busy avenues and parking ranks 22. A 22 on parking places Central Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 56 and infrastructure at 41. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Central Avenue, at 86. Central Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 33% of the 752 homes on file, 249 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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Central Avenue runs through Glendale, Far Rockaway and Ridgewood, 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).