Flushing Avenue, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Flushing Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and tree cover (61); traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Flushing Avenue. 116 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 12 among busy avenues. 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. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 345 reports. Quietness ranks 87, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 43 against every street in the city. Only about 2% of the 265 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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