Poplar Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Poplar Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Poplar Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (56). Transit (10) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Poplar Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 12 of them. Across every category, 42 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. In all, 11 distinct 311 categories are represented on Poplar Avenue. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on Poplar Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Poplar Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 58 residential buildings and 81 homes on Poplar Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Poplar Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 90, with parking at 22. A 22 on parking places Poplar Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 70 and cleanliness at 25 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Poplar Avenue ranks 56 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Poplar Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Poplar Avenue is quietness, at 99.
None of the 81 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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Poplar Avenue runs through East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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