Elmira Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Elmira Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elmira Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (83) and tree cover (29). Transit (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed complaint on Elmira Avenue, with 19 reports. The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Elmira Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 61 residential buildings on Elmira Avenue hold the 62 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 77, with traffic safety at 19. That 19 on traffic safety puts Elmira Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 66 and parking at 29. Food nearby ranks 23 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Elmira Avenue, at 29. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
Of the 62 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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Elmira Avenue runs through St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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