De Costa Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does De Costa Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts De Costa Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and transit (36). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on De Costa Avenue, with 22 reports. Across every category, 87 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits residential noise, with 10 reports. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on De Costa Avenue. Set against the 128 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on De Costa Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on De Costa Avenue, 12 violations of it. The housing file lists 64 residential buildings on De Costa Avenue holding 128 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, De Costa Avenue ranks 85 on cleanliness and 32 on quietness. A 32 on quietness places De Costa Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 46 and infrastructure at 37 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, De Costa Avenue ranks 36 on tree cover and 12 on food nearby. De Costa Avenue ranks 36 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band De Costa Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on De Costa Avenue is traffic safety, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 128 on De Costa Avenue.
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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De Costa Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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