Main Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Main Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Main Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and food nearby (57). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Main Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 27 of them, and parking ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 33% of the 83 reports on file here. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 20 reports. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Main Avenue carries roughly 130 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Main Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 3 residential buildings on Main Avenue hold the 64 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Main Avenue holds about 21 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 74 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 15. A 15 on housing places Main Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 26 on the same scale, with quietness at 16. The citywide frame puts transit at 36 and tree cover at 24. Main Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Main Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 85.
The housing file puts 48% of the 64 homes on Main Avenue in rent stabilization, 31 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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Main Avenue runs through Old Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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