Grand Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Grand Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Grand Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (86). Transit (33) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Grand Avenue, with 137 reports. Across every category, 579 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 54 reports, then blocked driveway at 53. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 995 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Grand Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Grand Avenue, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (34 violations) and paint and lead (27). 326 residential buildings on Grand Avenue hold the 995 homes on file, 35 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 171 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 96 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 37. That 37 on traffic safety puts Grand Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 91 and infrastructure at 73. Against every street in the city, Grand Avenue ranks 62 on food nearby and 33 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Grand Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 995 homes on file, 26 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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Grand Avenue runs through Maspeth and Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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