Elizabeth Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Elizabeth Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elizabeth Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and transit (53). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elizabeth Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 12 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 21% of the 56 reports on file here. Reports on Elizabeth Avenue span 15 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 90 reports for every 100 homes on Elizabeth Avenue.
The HPD file on Elizabeth Avenue carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 41 residential buildings on Elizabeth Avenue hold the 62 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Elizabeth Avenue ranks 79 on traffic safety and 12 on infrastructure. That 12 on infrastructure puts Elizabeth Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 66 and quietness at 63. Against every street in the city, Elizabeth Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby and 10 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
None of the 62 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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Elizabeth Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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