Franklin Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Franklin Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Franklin Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and food nearby (88). Traffic safety (52) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Franklin Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 46 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 52 among busy avenues. Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Franklin Avenue, with 123 reports. The whole 311 file on Franklin Avenue holds 503 reports, and blocked driveway is 24% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (121 reports) and heat and hot water (105). In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Franklin Avenue. About 29 reports per 100 homes sit on Franklin Avenue, counting every category.
Franklin Avenue carries 52 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 52 violations on file. Pests follows at 37 violations, then paint and lead at 30. 49 residential buildings on Franklin Avenue hold the 1,739 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 35 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Franklin Avenue ranks 96 on infrastructure and 66 on parking. Franklin Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts housing at 76 and quietness at 72 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 68 and transit 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Franklin Avenue, at 88. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Franklin Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Franklin Avenue is cleanliness, at 100.
About 31% of the 1,739 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 543 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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Franklin Avenue runs through Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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