Jewel Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Jewel Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Jewel Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (33) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Jewel Avenue. 108 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 33 among busy avenues. Residential noise draws more reports than anything else here, 141 of them. The whole 311 file on Jewel Avenue holds 560 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 119 reports, then street condition at 52. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on Jewel Avenue. Set against the 2,318 homes on file, that is about 24 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on Jewel Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Jewel Avenue, 19 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (14 violations) and paint and lead (12). The housing file lists 275 residential buildings on Jewel Avenue holding 2,318 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.4 homes each.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 87, with infrastructure at 34. Jewel Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 81 and quietness at 67. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Jewel Avenue ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Jewel Avenue is housing, at 97.
The housing file puts 2% of the 2,318 homes on Jewel Avenue in rent stabilization, 57 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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Jewel Avenue runs through Pomonok, Kew Gardens Hills and Forest Hills, 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).