Greenpoint Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Greenpoint Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Greenpoint Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and food nearby (80). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Greenpoint Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Greenpoint Avenue have injured 127 people, and traffic safety ranks 8 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 74 of them. Across every category, 422 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Maintenance or facility is the next most-filed at 52 reports, then heat and hot water at 27. In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on Greenpoint Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Greenpoint Avenue carries roughly 120 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 33 Class C violations on Greenpoint Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 26 violations on file. Doors accounts for 20 more, and paint and lead for 20. City housing records put 352 homes in 55 residential buildings on Greenpoint Avenue, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.4 homes each.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 81, with infrastructure at 15. Greenpoint Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 68 on the same scale, with housing at 63. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 64 and transit at 47. Greenpoint Avenue ranks 80 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 48% of the 352 homes on file, 170 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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Greenpoint Avenue runs through Sunnyside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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