Fresh Meadow Lane, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Fresh Meadow Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Fresh Meadow Lane in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (52) and tree cover (77). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Fresh Meadow Lane, with 314 reports, and parking ranks 6 among quiet residential streets. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (51 reports) and consumer complaint (17). The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 106 homes on file, that is about 196 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Fresh Meadow Lane, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 106 homes in 61 residential buildings on Fresh Meadow Lane, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 29, with cleanliness at 18. That 18 on cleanliness puts Fresh Meadow Lane in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 22 and infrastructure at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 7. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Fresh Meadow Lane, at 77. Fresh Meadow Lane is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Fresh Meadow Lane is housing, at 52.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 106 on Fresh Meadow Lane.
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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Fresh Meadow Lane runs through Auburndale, Fresh Meadows and Queensboro Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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