Memphis Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Memphis Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Memphis Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and tree cover (79). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Memphis Avenue. 30 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 29 reports. The whole 311 file on Memphis Avenue holds 39 reports, and illegal parking is 74% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed, with 15 reports. Reports on Memphis Avenue span 25 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on Memphis Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Memphis Avenue. City housing records put 149 homes in 98 residential buildings on Memphis Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 63, with cleanliness at 35. That 35 on cleanliness puts Memphis Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 52 and quietness at 51. Against every street in the city, Memphis Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Memphis Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Memphis Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Memphis Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 78.
None of the 149 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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Memphis Avenue runs through Rosedale, 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).