Ocean Avenue S, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Ocean Avenue S in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Ocean Avenue S in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (100) and transit (66). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 7 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Ocean Avenue S, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 52 residential buildings on Ocean Avenue S hold the 101 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Ocean Avenue S since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 99 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 25. Ocean Avenue S sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 93 and quietness at 53 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 23 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Ocean Avenue S ranks 66 on transit, 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 Ocean Avenue S is infrastructure, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 101 on Ocean Avenue S.
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
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Ocean Avenue S runs through Rockaway Beach, 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).