Hawthorn Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Hawthorn Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hawthorn Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and food nearby (65). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hawthorn Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 11 of them. In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hawthorn Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Hawthorn Avenue. The housing file lists 61 residential buildings on Hawthorn Avenue holding 129 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Hawthorn Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 97 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 57. A 57 on parking places Hawthorn Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 96 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 88. The citywide frame puts transit at 17 and tree cover at 0. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Hawthorn Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Hawthorn Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 99.
22% of the 129 homes recorded on Hawthorn Avenue are rent-stabilized, 28 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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Hawthorn Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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