Oak Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Oak Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Oak Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and tree cover (79). Transit (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Oak Avenue, with 26 reports. Across every category, 77 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then obstruction at 10. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 147 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
Oak Avenue carries 10 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 100 residential buildings and 147 homes on Oak Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 52 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 12. Oak Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 38 and traffic safety at 17. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 4. Oak Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Oak Avenue is quietness, at 71.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 147 on Oak 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.
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Oak Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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