Henderson Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Henderson Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Henderson Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (62) and food nearby (45). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Henderson Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 22 of them, and cleanliness ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 58 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name blocked driveway. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 21 reports. In all, 22 distinct 311 categories are represented on Henderson Avenue. About 98 reports per 100 homes sit on Henderson Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Henderson Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. City housing records put 59 homes in 58 residential buildings on Henderson Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Henderson Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Henderson Avenue ranks 43 on infrastructure and 6 on parking. Henderson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 25 and traffic safety at 11. Against every street in the city, Henderson Avenue ranks 40 on transit and 15 on tree cover. Henderson Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 59 on Henderson 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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Henderson Avenue runs through St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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