Hiawatha Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Hiawatha Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hiawatha Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (48). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Hiawatha Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 28 homes in 16 residential buildings on Hiawatha Avenue, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Hiawatha Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 84 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 30. Hiawatha Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 62 and parking at 40. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 20 and transit at 7. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 48. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Hiawatha Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Hiawatha Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
None of the 28 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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Hiawatha Avenue runs through Hollis, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).