Flushing Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Flushing Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Flushing Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (61). Infrastructure (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Flushing Avenue, with 345 reports. The whole 311 file on Flushing Avenue holds 504 reports, and illegal parking is 68% of it. After that the file runs to derelict vehicles (87 reports) and blocked driveway (48). Reports on Flushing Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Flushing Avenue carries roughly 190 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Flushing Avenue is pests, at 19 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 15 more. PLUTO counts 112 residential buildings and 265 homes on Flushing Avenue, with 20 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 116 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 72 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 12. That 12 on traffic safety puts Flushing Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 42 and cleanliness at 26 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Flushing Avenue ranks 61 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Flushing Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Flushing Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 85.
The housing file puts 2% of the 265 homes on Flushing Avenue in rent stabilization, 6 homes in all.
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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Flushing Avenue runs through Maspeth and Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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