Dongan Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Dongan Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Dongan Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and food nearby (89). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Dongan Avenue, with 62 reports. Across every category, 230 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 59 reports, and encampment with 20. Reports on Dongan Avenue span 33 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Dongan Avenue carries roughly 68 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 36 Class C violations on Dongan Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Dongan Avenue is pests, at 21 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 18 more, and doors for 11. PLUTO counts 76 residential buildings and 340 homes on Dongan Avenue, with 45 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Dongan Avenue holds about 4.5 homes.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Dongan Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 83 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 42. Dongan Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Quietness ranks 61 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 43. Transit ranks 76 and tree cover 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Dongan Avenue, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Dongan Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 340 homes on file, 12 homes in all.
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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Dongan Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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