Lamont Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Lamont Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lamont Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and food nearby (85). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lamont Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 68 of them. The whole 311 file on Lamont Avenue holds 330 reports, and heat and hot water is 21% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (38 reports) and residential noise (37). In all, 37 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lamont Avenue. About 49 reports per 100 homes sit on Lamont Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Lamont Avenue carries 89 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lamont Avenue, 62 violations of it. Doors follows at 51 violations, then paint and lead at 47. City housing records put 674 homes in 41 residential buildings on Lamont Avenue, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Lamont Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Lamont Avenue ranks 98 on cleanliness and 60 on quietness. Lamont Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on quietness. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 89 and traffic safety at 71. Against every street in the city, Lamont Avenue ranks 61 on transit and 52 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. Lamont Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lamont Avenue is infrastructure, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 65% of the 674 homes on file, 436 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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Lamont Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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