Galway Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Galway Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Galway Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (34). Transit (13) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Galway Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Galway Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 40 residential buildings on Galway Avenue hold the 50 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Galway Avenue ranks 77 on housing and 22 on infrastructure. That 22 on infrastructure puts Galway Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 60 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 37. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Galway Avenue ranks 34 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Galway Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 92.
Of the 50 homes on file, none 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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Galway Avenue runs through St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).