Plainview Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Plainview Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Plainview Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (56). Traffic safety (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Plainview Avenue, with 15 reports. Across every category, 36 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 27 distinct 311 categories are represented on Plainview Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Plainview Avenue carries roughly 31 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Plainview Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 43 residential buildings and 115 homes on Plainview Avenue, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 72 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 38. A 38 on parking places Plainview Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 57 and housing at 44 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 40 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 56. Plainview Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 115 on Plainview 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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Plainview Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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