Onderdonk Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Onderdonk Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 64, 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 Onderdonk Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and tree cover (89). Cleanliness (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Onderdonk Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 242 of them, and cleanliness ranks 37 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Onderdonk Avenue holds 731 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (93 reports) and heat and hot water (90). In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on Onderdonk Avenue. Set against the 968 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 73 Class C violations on Onderdonk Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Onderdonk Avenue, 95 violations of it. Pests accounts for 94 more, and doors for 50. PLUTO counts 238 residential buildings and 968 homes on Onderdonk Avenue, with 153 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 71, with traffic safety at 53. Onderdonk Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 68 and housing at 58. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 88 and transit at 69. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Onderdonk Avenue, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
The housing file puts 4% of the 968 homes on Onderdonk Avenue in rent stabilization, 37 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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Onderdonk Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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