Elder Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Elder Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against busy avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elder Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and food nearby (72). Transit (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elder Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 26 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 19% of the 140 reports on file here. After that the file runs to dirty condition (14 reports) and illegal parking (12). In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elder Avenue. Set against the 761 homes on file, that is about 18 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 36 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Elder Avenue is doors, at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 29 residential buildings and 761 homes on Elder Avenue, with 9 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 26 homes each.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 99, with traffic safety at 46. Elder Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Housing ranks 61 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 54. Against every street in the city, Elder Avenue ranks 39 on tree cover and 33 on transit. Elder Avenue ranks 72 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where Elder Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 99.
The housing file puts 21% of the 761 homes on Elder Avenue in rent stabilization, 158 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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Elder Avenue runs through Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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