Putnam Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Putnam Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against busy avenues. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Putnam Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (75) and transit (92). Cleanliness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Putnam Avenue, with 146 reports, and cleanliness ranks 22 among busy avenues. Across every category, 636 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 139 reports, then unsanitary condition at 36. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on Putnam Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Putnam Avenue carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 64 Class C violations on Putnam Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Putnam Avenue is pests, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (47 violations) and doors (35). PLUTO counts 232 residential buildings and 1,099 homes on Putnam Avenue, with 127 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Putnam Avenue holds about 4.7 homes.
NYPD records 24 people injured in crashes on Putnam Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Putnam Avenue ranks 65 on traffic safety and 41 on quietness. A 41 on quietness places Putnam Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 61 and housing at 43. Against every street in the city, Putnam Avenue ranks 90 on food nearby and 82 on tree cover. Putnam Avenue ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Putnam Avenue is infrastructure, at 75.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,099 homes on Putnam Avenue in rent stabilization, 223 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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Putnam Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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