Craft Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Craft Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Craft Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and tree cover (73). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Craft Avenue, with 85 reports. Across every category, 157 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 54% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (15 reports) and sewer (10). In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Craft Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Craft Avenue carries roughly 68 reports per 100 of them.
Craft Avenue carries 4 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 230 homes in 93 residential buildings on Craft Avenue, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Craft Avenue ranks 65 on quietness and 13 on parking. That 13 on parking puts Craft Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 64 on the same scale, with housing at 21. Against every street in the city, Craft Avenue ranks 12 on food nearby and 3 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Craft Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
None of the 230 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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Craft Avenue runs through Rosedale, 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).