Dinsmore Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Dinsmore Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Dinsmore Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and transit (53). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Dinsmore Avenue, with 26 reports. Across every category, 63 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 14 reports. The file runs across 11 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Dinsmore Avenue carries roughly 79 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Dinsmore Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 22 residential buildings on Dinsmore Avenue hold the 80 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.6 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Dinsmore Avenue ranks 50 on traffic safety and 11 on infrastructure. That 11 on infrastructure puts Dinsmore Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 36 and housing at 27 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 51 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Dinsmore Avenue, at 53. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Dinsmore Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dinsmore Avenue is cleanliness, at 79.
None of the 80 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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Dinsmore Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, 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).