Metcalf Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 21 out of 100. How does Metcalf Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 21 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 9, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Metcalf Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (54) and tree cover (22). Transit (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 7 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Metcalf Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 19 residential buildings on Metcalf Avenue hold the 21 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 47 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 4. Metcalf Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 45 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 6. Food nearby ranks 12 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Metcalf Avenue ranks 22 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Metcalf Avenue is housing, at 54.
None of the 21 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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Metcalf Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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