Pettit Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Pettit Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Pettit Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (89) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Pettit Avenue, with 46 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Pettit Avenue holds 130 reports, and residential noise is 35% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 34 reports, and heat and hot water with 20. Reports on Pettit Avenue span 21 distinct 311 categories. About 73 reports per 100 homes sit on Pettit Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Pettit Avenue carries 14 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Pettit Avenue, 16 violations of it. PLUTO counts 35 residential buildings and 179 homes on Pettit Avenue, with 10 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.1 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 51 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 14. Pettit Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Quietness ranks 30 on the same scale, with parking at 25. Against every street in the city, Pettit Avenue ranks 92 on transit and 35 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Pettit Avenue, at 93. Pettit Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Pettit Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 89.
The housing file puts 59% of the 179 homes on Pettit Avenue in rent stabilization, 105 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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Pettit Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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