Garfield Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does Garfield Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Garfield Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and food nearby (48). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Garfield Avenue, with 109 reports, and parking ranks 1 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Garfield Avenue holds 154 reports, and illegal parking is 71% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 15 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 12. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Garfield Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Garfield Avenue carries roughly 244 reports per 100 of them.
Garfield Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 32 residential buildings on Garfield Avenue hold the 63 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Garfield Avenue have injured 13 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 37, with traffic safety at 2. That 2 on traffic safety puts Garfield Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 26 on the same scale, with quietness at 15. Against every street in the city, Garfield Avenue ranks 31 on tree cover and 30 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 48. Garfield Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Garfield Avenue is cleanliness, at 67.
None of the 63 homes on file 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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Garfield Avenue runs through Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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