Jefferson Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Jefferson Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jefferson Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and food nearby (93). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Jefferson Avenue, with 47 reports, and parking ranks 5 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 130 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then residential noise at 10. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 112 homes on file, that is about 116 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Jefferson Avenue. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 10 violations on file. City housing records put 112 homes in 25 residential buildings on Jefferson Avenue, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on Jefferson Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 27 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 6. That 6 on traffic safety puts Jefferson Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 16 and quietness at 12 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Jefferson Avenue ranks 83 on transit and 25 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Jefferson Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Jefferson Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 78.
About 21% of the 112 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 24 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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Jefferson Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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