Nero Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Nero Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 16, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Nero Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (90) and transit (19). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Residential noise leads the 311 file on Nero Avenue, with 11 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among smaller avenues. In all, 12 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nero Avenue.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Nero Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 24 homes in 23 residential buildings on Nero Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Nero Avenue since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 74 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 18. That 18 on infrastructure puts Nero Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 71 on the same scale, with parking at 50. Food nearby ranks 12 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 19. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Nero Avenue is scored inside.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 24 on Nero Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Nero Avenue runs through Jamaica Estates, 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).

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