Quince Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Quince Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Quince Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (65). Transit (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Quince Avenue, with 15 reports. Across every category, 40 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (12 reports) and abandoned vehicle (11). Reports on Quince Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Quince Avenue carries roughly 33 reports per 100 of them.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Quince Avenue. City housing records put 122 homes in 77 residential buildings on Quince Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 84 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 23. That 23 on traffic safety puts Quince Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 75 and parking at 32. Against every street in the city, Quince Avenue ranks 12 on food nearby and 4 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Quince Avenue, at 65. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Quince Avenue is scored inside.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.

Of the 122 homes on file, none 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Quince Avenue runs through East Flushing, 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).

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