Hillside Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Hillside Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against major corridors. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Hillside Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and tree cover (99). Transit (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hillside Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 992 of them. Across every category, 2,211 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (261 reports) and heat and hot water (251). Reports on Hillside Avenue span 110 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Hillside Avenue carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 175 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 166 violations on file. Doors accounts for 75 more, and paint and lead for 72. PLUTO counts 538 residential buildings and 3,962 homes on Hillside Avenue, with 74 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 7.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 744 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Hillside Avenue ranks 53 on quietness and 29 on traffic safety. That 29 on traffic safety puts Hillside Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Infrastructure ranks 47 on the same scale, with housing at 33. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 190 major corridors make up the band Hillside Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hillside Avenue is parking, at 68.
41% of the 3,962 homes recorded on Hillside Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,543 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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Hillside Avenue runs through Bellerose, Jamaica Estates and Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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