Goethals Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 22 out of 100. How does Goethals Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 22 out of 100.
Calm 7, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Goethals Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (33) and tree cover (55). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Goethals Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 142 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 23% of the 620 reports on file here. Drug activity follows with 120 reports, and traffic with 60. The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 48 homes on file, that is about 1,292 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Goethals Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. PLUTO counts 29 residential buildings and 48 homes on Goethals Avenue, with 9 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 8 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 0. A 0 on parking places Goethals Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 5 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 4. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Goethals Avenue is infrastructure, at 33.
Of the 48 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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Goethals Avenue runs through Pomonok and Kew Gardens Hills, 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).