Elmhurst Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Elmhurst Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Elmhurst Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and food nearby (92). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Elmhurst Avenue, with 290 reports. Across every category, 751 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 109 reports, then illegal parking at 73. In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elmhurst Avenue. Set against the 1,238 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
Elmhurst Avenue carries 98 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 97 violations on file. Pests accounts for 59 more, and doors for 56. City housing records put 1,238 homes in 54 residential buildings on Elmhurst Avenue, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 42 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Elmhurst Avenue ranks 77 on cleanliness and 21 on quietness. That 21 on quietness puts Elmhurst Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 75 and housing at 37 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 75 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Elmhurst Avenue ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Elmhurst Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Elmhurst Avenue is infrastructure, at 87.
64% of the 1,238 homes recorded on Elmhurst Avenue are rent-stabilized, 788 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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Elmhurst Avenue runs through Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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