Gouverneur Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Gouverneur Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Gouverneur Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and transit (67). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 14 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gouverneur Avenue. About 148 reports per 100 homes sit on Gouverneur Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Gouverneur Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Gouverneur Avenue is pests, at 10 violations. The housing file lists 27 residential buildings on Gouverneur Avenue holding 52 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Gouverneur Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 92 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 1. Gouverneur Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 74 on the same scale, with parking at 46. Food nearby ranks 45 and tree cover 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Gouverneur Avenue, at 67. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Gouverneur Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Gouverneur Avenue is infrastructure, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 52 on Gouverneur Avenue.
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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Gouverneur Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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