Holland Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Holland Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Holland Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (89) and transit (87). Housing (19) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Holland Avenue, with 14 reports. Across every category, 38 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits residential noise, with 10 reports. Reports on Holland Avenue span 18 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Holland Avenue carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Holland Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. 40 residential buildings on Holland Avenue hold the 106 homes on file, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.

Among smaller avenues, Holland Avenue ranks 81 on cleanliness and 43 on quietness. Holland Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on quietness. Parking ranks 57 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 51. Food nearby ranks 74 and tree cover 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.

The housing file puts 7% of the 106 homes on Holland Avenue in rent stabilization, 7 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Holland Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, 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).

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