Elm Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Elm Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elm Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (63). Transit (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elm Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 20 of them. The whole 311 file on Elm Avenue holds 42 reports, and blocked driveway is 48% of it. In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elm Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on Elm Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Elm Avenue. The housing file lists 53 residential buildings on Elm Avenue holding 106 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Elm Avenue ranks 93 on cleanliness and 41 on parking. Elm Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 82 and traffic safety at 62. Tree cover ranks 31 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Elm Avenue, at 63. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
Of the 106 homes on file, none 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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Elm Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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