Jay Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Jay Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Jay Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (62) and food nearby (59). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Jay Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 79 of them, and parking ranks 11 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Jay Avenue holds 139 reports, and illegal parking is 57% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (44 reports) and abandoned vehicle (26). The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. About 87 reports per 100 homes sit on Jay Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Jay Avenue, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 79 residential buildings on Jay Avenue holding 159 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 51, with cleanliness at 25. Jay Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 47 on the same scale, with housing at 33. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 35 and transit at 25. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 59. Jay Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Jay Avenue is infrastructure, at 62.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 159 on Jay 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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Jay Avenue runs through Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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