Mott Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Mott Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Mott Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (80) and tree cover (86). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Mott Avenue, with 68 reports. Across every category, 484 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (61 reports) and residential noise (59). Reports on Mott Avenue span 57 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on Mott Avenue.
HPD has cited 101 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Mott Avenue, 71 violations of it. Doors accounts for 24 more, and paint and lead for 18. PLUTO counts 140 residential buildings and 780 homes on Mott Avenue, with 12 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Mott Avenue holds about 5.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Mott Avenue have injured 61 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 72, with traffic safety at 22. That 22 on traffic safety puts Mott Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 64 and housing at 31 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 45 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Mott Avenue is parking, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 56% of the 780 homes on file, 434 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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Mott Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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