Empire Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Empire Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Empire Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (45). Food nearby (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Empire Avenue span 14 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Empire Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 39 residential buildings on Empire Avenue hold the 57 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Empire Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Empire Avenue ranks 86 on cleanliness and 25 on traffic safety. A 25 on traffic safety places Empire Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 77 and infrastructure at 29 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Empire Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby and 23 on tree cover. Empire Avenue ranks 45 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Empire Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
None of the 57 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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Empire 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).