Kalmia Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Kalmia Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Kalmia Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and food nearby (67). Parking (15) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Kalmia Avenue, with 23 reports, and parking ranks 15 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Kalmia Avenue holds 44 reports, and illegal parking is 52% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (14 reports) and dirty condition (12). The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 88 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Kalmia Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 70 residential buildings on Kalmia Avenue holding 88 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Kalmia Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 84 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 51. Kalmia Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 79 and cleanliness at 76. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 40 and transit at 15. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. Kalmia Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where Kalmia Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 87.
None of the 88 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Kalmia Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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