Lakewood Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Lakewood Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Lakewood Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (67) and tree cover (63). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lakewood Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 43 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 21% of the 205 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal dumping (29 reports) and illegal parking (26). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lakewood Avenue. Set against the 249 homes on file, that is about 82 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Lakewood Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 27 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 20 more. 129 residential buildings on Lakewood Avenue hold the 249 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Lakewood Avenue have injured 22 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 40, with quietness at 20. A 20 on quietness places Lakewood Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 38 on the same scale, with housing at 32. Transit ranks 29 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Lakewood Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lakewood Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
Of the 249 homes on file, none 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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Lakewood Avenue runs through South Jamaica, 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).