Hoover Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Hoover Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hoover Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and tree cover (79). Quietness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Hoover Avenue, with 389 reports. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 183 reports, then plumbing at 54. In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hoover Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 33 reports for every 100 homes on Hoover Avenue.
The HPD file on Hoover Avenue carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hoover Avenue is doors, at 21 violations. Pests follows at 19 violations, then paint and lead at 10. 161 residential buildings on Hoover Avenue hold the 805 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Hoover Avenue have injured 17 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Hoover Avenue ranks 88 on infrastructure and 49 on cleanliness. A 49 on cleanliness places Hoover Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 84 and traffic safety at 60. Transit ranks 56 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Hoover Avenue, at 79. Hoover Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hoover Avenue is parking, at 93.
42% of the 805 homes recorded on Hoover Avenue are rent-stabilized, 336 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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Hoover Avenue runs through Jamaica Hills and Kew Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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