Continental Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Continental Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Continental Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and food nearby (93). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Continental Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 33 residential buildings and 148 homes on Continental Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Continental Avenue holds about 4.5 homes.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 91, with traffic safety at 52. Continental Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 88 and quietness at 67. Against every street in the city, Continental Avenue ranks 77 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Continental Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Continental Avenue is cleanliness, at 94.
None of the 148 homes on file 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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Continental Avenue runs through Forest Hills, 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).