Kneeland Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Kneeland Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Kneeland Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (47) and food nearby (53). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Kneeland Avenue, with 56 reports. Across every category, 90 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 62% of them name residential noise. Reports on Kneeland Avenue span 19 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Kneeland Avenue carries roughly 105 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 55 residential buildings on Kneeland Avenue hold the 86 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 26, with cleanliness at 11. An 11 on cleanliness places Kneeland Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 21 and quietness at 16. The citywide frame puts transit at 48 and tree cover at 34. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kneeland Avenue is traffic safety, at 47.
None of the 86 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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Kneeland Avenue runs through Elmhurst, 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).