Nurge Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Nurge Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Nurge Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and food nearby (62). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Nurge Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 34 of them, and parking ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 66 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 23 reports. The file runs across 17 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Nurge Avenue carries roughly 138 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Nurge Avenue. PLUTO counts 18 residential buildings and 48 homes on Nurge Avenue, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 34, with cleanliness at 18. That 18 on cleanliness puts Nurge Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 21 and quietness at 20. Against every street in the city, Nurge Avenue ranks 24 on transit and 13 on tree cover. Nurge Avenue ranks 62 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Nurge Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 70.
None of the 48 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Nurge Avenue runs through Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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