Fairview Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Fairview Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Fairview Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and food nearby (78). Parking (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Fairview Avenue, with 124 reports, and parking ranks 26 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Fairview Avenue holds 240 reports, and illegal parking is 52% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 60 reports, and illegal posting with 37. Reports on Fairview Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 354 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on Fairview Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Fairview Avenue is bed bugs, at 34 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 24 violations. The housing file lists 97 residential buildings on Fairview Avenue holding 354 homes, with 58 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on Fairview Avenue have injured 16 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 51 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 31. A 31 on traffic safety places Fairview Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 44 on the same scale, with housing at 35. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Fairview Avenue, at 78. Fairview Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Fairview Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 91.
Of the 354 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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Fairview Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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