Newtown Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Newtown Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Newtown Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Newtown Avenue, with 90 reports, and cleanliness ranks 36 among busy avenues. Across every category, 309 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (43 reports) and blocked driveway (36). In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Newtown Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 44 reports for every 100 homes on Newtown Avenue.
Newtown Avenue carries 18 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 31 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 13 violations, then pests at 12. City housing records put 701 homes in 64 residential buildings on Newtown Avenue, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Newtown Avenue have injured 14 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Newtown Avenue ranks 72 on traffic safety and 52 on parking. Newtown Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 70 and housing at 64 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Newtown Avenue ranks 79 on transit and 57 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Newtown Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
The housing file puts 56% of the 701 homes on Newtown Avenue in rent stabilization, 374 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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Newtown Avenue runs through Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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