New Haven Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does New Haven Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts New Haven Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and tree cover (54). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on New Haven Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 348 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Residential noise accounts for 33% of the 1,070 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 46 reports, and heat and hot water with 32. Reports on New Haven Avenue span 41 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 542 homes on file, that is about 197 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on New Haven Avenue carries 61 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on New Haven Avenue is paint and lead, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (36 violations) and pests (36). PLUTO counts 53 residential buildings and 542 homes on New Haven Avenue, with 8 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, New Haven Avenue ranks 62 on parking and 7 on housing. A 7 on housing places New Haven Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 43 and cleanliness at 40 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 53 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on New Haven Avenue, at 54. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band New Haven Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on New Haven Avenue is infrastructure, at 83.
25% of the 542 homes recorded on New Haven Avenue are rent-stabilized, 144 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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New Haven Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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