Hoyt Avenue S, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Hoyt Avenue S in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Hoyt Avenue S in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and transit (79). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Hoyt Avenue S. Reported crashes here have injured 32 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 44 reports. The whole 311 file on Hoyt Avenue S holds 141 reports, and residential noise is 31% of it. Illegal parking follows with 23 reports, and blocked driveway with 11. Reports on Hoyt Avenue S span 39 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 232 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 232 homes in 49 residential buildings on Hoyt Avenue S, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 41 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 10. Hoyt Avenue S sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Housing ranks 40 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 35. Food nearby ranks 79 and tree cover 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Hoyt Avenue S, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
About 43% of the 232 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 100 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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Hoyt Avenue S runs through Astoria, 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).