Pitkin Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Pitkin Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Pitkin Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (49) and tree cover (77). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Pitkin Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 78 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among smaller avenues. The 311 file on Pitkin Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 81 reports. Across every category, 316 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 32 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 24. Reports on Pitkin Avenue span 51 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Pitkin Avenue carries roughly 81 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Pitkin Avenue carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Pitkin Avenue is bed bugs, at 25 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 17 violations. 178 residential buildings on Pitkin Avenue hold the 389 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Pitkin Avenue holds about 2.2 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 40 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 22. That 22 on parking puts Pitkin Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 34 on the same scale, with housing at 34. The citywide frame puts transit at 57 and food nearby at 45. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. Pitkin Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 49.
None of the 389 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Pitkin Avenue runs through Ozone Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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