Otis Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Otis Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Otis Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (74). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Otis Avenue, with 83 reports. Across every category, 293 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 81 reports, then residential noise at 71. Reports on Otis Avenue span 37 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Otis Avenue carries roughly 104 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Otis Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Otis Avenue, 30 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (22 violations) and doors (15). City housing records put 282 homes in 81 residential buildings on Otis Avenue, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Otis Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 42, with parking at 13. Otis Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Housing ranks 28 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 16. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 43 and transit at 35. Otis Avenue ranks 74 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 the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
About 4% of the 282 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 12 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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Otis Avenue runs through Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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