Eliot Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Eliot Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Eliot Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (87). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Eliot Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Eliot Avenue have injured 156 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Eliot Avenue, with 320 reports. Across every category, 621 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (57 reports) and blocked driveway (55). In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on Eliot Avenue. Set against the 640 homes on file, that is about 97 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on Eliot Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 13 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 12 violations. City housing records put 640 homes in 350 residential buildings on Eliot Avenue, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among busy avenues, Eliot Avenue ranks 92 on housing and 6 on parking. That 6 on parking puts Eliot Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 35 and infrastructure at 7 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Eliot Avenue ranks 47 on transit and 27 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Eliot Avenue, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Eliot Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Eliot Avenue is quietness, at 92.
About 4% of the 640 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 24 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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Eliot Avenue runs through Maspeth, Middle Village and Rego Park, 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).