Melbourne Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Melbourne Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 91, ranked against busy avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Melbourne Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and tree cover (66). Food nearby (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Melbourne Avenue, with 37 reports. Across every category, 94 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name residential noise. General construction and plumbing follows with 19 reports, and plumbing with 17. The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,049 homes on file, that is about 9 reports per 100 homes.
Melbourne Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 1,049 homes in 59 residential buildings on Melbourne Avenue, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Melbourne Avenue holds about 18 homes.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 99, with cleanliness at 61. That 61 on cleanliness puts Melbourne Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 97 and quietness at 88. Against every street in the city, Melbourne Avenue ranks 21 on transit and 18 on food nearby. Melbourne Avenue ranks 66 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Melbourne Avenue is parking, at 99.
The housing file puts 4% of the 1,049 homes on Melbourne Avenue in rent stabilization, 40 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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Melbourne Avenue runs through Kew Gardens Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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