Greene Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Greene Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Greene Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (46) and food nearby (77). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Greene Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 161 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 28% of the 565 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 130 reports, and residential noise with 100. Reports on Greene Avenue span 44 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 542 homes on file, that is about 104 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 23 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Greene Avenue, 35 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (27 violations) and pests (26). City housing records put 542 homes in 158 residential buildings on Greene Avenue, 82 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Greene Avenue holds about 3.4 homes.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 36 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 16. Greene Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 34 on the same scale, with parking at 23. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 72 and transit at 57. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Greene Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 46.
None of the 542 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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Greene Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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