Elvira Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Elvira Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elvira Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and tree cover (59). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 6 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Elvira Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 32 residential buildings on Elvira Avenue hold the 33 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Elvira Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Elvira Avenue ranks 90 on quietness and 22 on infrastructure. That 22 on infrastructure puts Elvira Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 73 and cleanliness at 57. Against every street in the city, Elvira Avenue ranks 28 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Elvira Avenue, at 59. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Elvira Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Elvira Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 33 on Elvira Avenue.
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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Elvira Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, 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).