Lithonia Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Lithonia Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 9, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lithonia Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (25). Transit (1) 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 Lithonia Avenue, with 11 reports. Reports on Lithonia Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Lithonia Avenue. The housing file lists 28 residential buildings on Lithonia Avenue holding 55 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Lithonia Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 76, with parking at 27. Lithonia Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 62 and infrastructure at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 12 and transit at 1. Lithonia Avenue ranks 25 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 55 on Lithonia Avenue.
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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Lithonia Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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