Delaware Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Delaware Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Delaware Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and food nearby (57). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Delaware Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 326 of them, and parking ranks 1 among smaller avenues. After that the file runs to residential noise (29 reports) and blocked driveway (23). The file runs across 27 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 130 homes on file, that is about 208 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Delaware Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 71 residential buildings on Delaware Avenue holding 130 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 85, with quietness at 20. A 20 on quietness places Delaware Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 84 and traffic safety at 42. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 50 and transit at 24. Delaware Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Delaware Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Delaware Avenue is cleanliness, at 92.
Of the 130 homes on file, none 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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Delaware Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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