Lewis Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Lewis Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Lewis Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and food nearby (71). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Lewis Avenue span 16 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Lewis Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 70 homes in 11 residential buildings on Lewis Avenue, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.4 homes to a building.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 49, with traffic safety at 21. That 21 on traffic safety puts Lewis Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 47 and housing at 35. Against every street in the city, Lewis Avenue ranks 44 on transit and 7 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. Lewis Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
None of the 70 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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Lewis Avenue runs through Corona, 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).