Penelope Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Penelope Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Penelope Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and tree cover (80). Transit (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Penelope Avenue, with 52 reports. The whole 311 file on Penelope Avenue holds 111 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (37 reports) and abandoned vehicle (16). Reports on Penelope Avenue span 33 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Penelope Avenue carries roughly 38 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Penelope Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 217 residential buildings and 293 homes on Penelope Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on Penelope Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Penelope Avenue ranks 68 on quietness and 34 on traffic safety. A 34 on traffic safety places Penelope Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 64 and parking at 36 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 293 on Penelope 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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Penelope Avenue runs through Middle Village, 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).