Highland Avenue, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does Highland Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 83, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Highland Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and transit (87). Street crime (65) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Highland Avenue, with 72 reports. The whole 311 file on Highland Avenue holds 238 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. Residential noise follows with 46 reports, and maintenance or facility with 29. The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,169 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
Highland Avenue carries 44 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Highland Avenue, 21 violations of it. Pests follows at 21 violations, then paint and lead at 13. City housing records put 1,169 homes in 90 residential buildings on Highland Avenue, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 95, with housing at 68. That 68 on housing puts Highland Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 94 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 81. Tree cover ranks 79 and food nearby 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Highland Avenue, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Highland Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 96.
The housing file puts 30% of the 1,169 homes on Highland Avenue in rent stabilization, 349 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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Highland Avenue runs through Jamaica Hills and Jamaica Estates, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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