Ferndale Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Ferndale Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Ferndale Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (48) and tree cover (55). Street crime (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Ferndale Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 39 of them. Across every category, 76 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 30 reports, and residential noise with 27. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ferndale Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Ferndale Avenue carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Ferndale Avenue. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 14 violations on file. 84 residential buildings on Ferndale Avenue hold the 168 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Ferndale Avenue holds about 2 homes.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 48, with quietness at 20. Ferndale Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts housing at 42 and cleanliness at 22 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Ferndale Avenue ranks 28 on transit and 27 on food nearby. Ferndale Avenue ranks 55 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 48.
None of the 168 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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Ferndale Avenue runs through South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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