Gates Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Gates Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Gates Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and food nearby (86). Traffic safety (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Gates Avenue. 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 34 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 134 of them. Across every category, 553 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 70 reports, then unsanitary condition at 59. The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,010 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Gates Avenue carries 74 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Gates Avenue is pests, at 73 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 58 more, and doors for 47. 275 residential buildings on Gates Avenue hold the 1,010 homes on file, 151 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.7 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Gates Avenue ranks 61 on cleanliness and 41 on infrastructure. A 41 on infrastructure places Gates Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 46 on the same scale, with parking at 42. Against every street in the city, Gates Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover and 83 on transit. Gates Avenue ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
About 6% of the 1,010 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 57 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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Gates Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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