Holly Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Holly Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Holly Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (55) and food nearby (77). Transit (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Holly Avenue, with 36 reports. The whole 311 file on Holly Avenue holds 157 reports, and blocked driveway is 23% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (30 reports) and elevator (24). In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on Holly Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on Holly Avenue.
The HPD file on Holly Avenue carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Holly Avenue is pests, at 25 violations. Doors follows at 21 violations, then paint and lead at 21. PLUTO counts 98 residential buildings and 254 homes on Holly Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on Holly Avenue have injured 14 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 48 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 24. Holly Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 42 on the same scale, with housing at 26. Tree cover ranks 40 and transit 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Holly Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Holly Avenue is quietness, at 55.
4% of the 254 homes recorded on Holly Avenue are rent-stabilized, 11 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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Holly Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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