Myrtle Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Myrtle Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Myrtle Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (50) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Myrtle Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 255 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 50 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Myrtle Avenue, with 336 reports. The whole 311 file on Myrtle Avenue holds 1,177 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 168 reports, then dirty condition at 120. In all, 96 distinct 311 categories are represented on Myrtle Avenue. About 85 reports per 100 homes sit on Myrtle Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Myrtle Avenue carries 31 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Myrtle Avenue, 98 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (43 violations) and paint and lead (13). City housing records put 1,377 homes in 550 residential buildings on Myrtle Avenue, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Myrtle Avenue holds about 2.5 homes.
Among busy avenues, Myrtle Avenue ranks 96 on housing and 83 on infrastructure. That 83 on infrastructure puts Myrtle Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 92 on the same scale, with parking at 92. Against every street in the city, Myrtle Avenue ranks 76 on food nearby and 54 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
About 8% of the 1,377 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 108 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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Myrtle Avenue runs through Glendale, Ridgewood and Richmond Hill, 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).