Martense Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Martense Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Martense Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (74). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Martense Avenue, with 47 reports. Across every category, 123 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (29 reports) and vehicle noise (29). The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on Martense Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Martense Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Martense Avenue is bed bugs, at 18 violations. Pests follows at 13 violations. The housing file lists 89 residential buildings on Martense Avenue holding 281 homes, with 62 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Martense Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Martense Avenue ranks 69 on quietness and 38 on housing. A 38 on housing places Martense Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 49 and parking at 43. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 41 and transit at 37. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Martense Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Martense Avenue is infrastructure, at 84.
Of the 281 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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Martense Avenue runs through Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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