Hillmeyer Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Hillmeyer Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hillmeyer Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and transit (34). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Hillmeyer Avenue, with 15 reports. The whole 311 file on Hillmeyer Avenue holds 62 reports, and heat and hot water is 24% of it. Water system is the next most-filed at 11 reports, then general construction and plumbing at 11. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hillmeyer Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Hillmeyer Avenue carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Hillmeyer Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hillmeyer Avenue is pests, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 58 residential buildings and 114 homes on Hillmeyer Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Hillmeyer Avenue ranks 83 on cleanliness and 14 on housing. Hillmeyer Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts parking at 63 and infrastructure at 21 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 15 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Hillmeyer Avenue, at 34. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hillmeyer Avenue is traffic safety, at 92.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 114 on Hillmeyer 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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Hillmeyer Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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