Polhemus Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Polhemus Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Polhemus Avenue in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (67) and food nearby (31). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Polhemus Avenue, with 11 reports. The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Polhemus Avenue. PLUTO counts 23 residential buildings and 33 homes on Polhemus Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Polhemus Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 65, with cleanliness at 1. A 1 on cleanliness places Polhemus Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 28 and parking at 17 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 30 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Polhemus Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Polhemus Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 67.
None of the 33 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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Polhemus Avenue runs through South Jamaica, 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).