Metropolitan Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Metropolitan Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Metropolitan Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (96) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Metropolitan Avenue. 379 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 31 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 482 of them. Across every category, 1,834 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 175 reports, then residential noise at 129. Reports on Metropolitan Avenue span 100 distinct 311 categories. About 79 reports per 100 homes sit on Metropolitan Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Metropolitan Avenue carries 148 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Metropolitan Avenue, 128 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 71 violations, then doors at 52. City housing records put 2,331 homes in 504 residential buildings on Metropolitan Avenue, 52 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.6 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Metropolitan Avenue ranks 83 on parking and 32 on cleanliness. A 32 on cleanliness places Metropolitan Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 82 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 64. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 44. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. Metropolitan Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
24% of the 2,331 homes recorded on Metropolitan Avenue are rent-stabilized, 563 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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Metropolitan Avenue runs through Maspeth, Kew Gardens and Middle Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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