Dekalb Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Dekalb Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Dekalb Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and tree cover (54). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Dekalb Avenue, with 22 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 74 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits residential noise, with 13 reports. Reports on Dekalb Avenue span 23 distinct 311 categories. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on Dekalb Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 69 residential buildings on Dekalb Avenue holding 157 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 39, with housing at 27. That 27 on housing puts Dekalb Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 38 and parking at 31 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 48 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 54. Dekalb Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Dekalb Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 71.
None of the 157 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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Dekalb Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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