Hollis Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Hollis Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hollis Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and tree cover (85). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Hollis Avenue, with 54 reports. Across every category, 407 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 39 reports, and unsanitary condition with 33. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hollis Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Hollis Avenue carries roughly 88 reports per 100 of them.
Hollis Avenue carries 41 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Hollis Avenue, 55 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 33 more, and plumbing for 22. City housing records put 465 homes in 231 residential buildings on Hollis Avenue, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Hollis Avenue holds about 2 homes.
NYPD records 78 people injured in crashes on Hollis Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 85 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 24. That 24 on infrastructure puts Hollis Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 84 and traffic safety at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 6. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Hollis Avenue, at 85. Hollis Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hollis Avenue is parking, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 465 on Hollis 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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Hollis Avenue runs through Hollis, Queens Village and St. Albans, 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).