Redfern Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Redfern Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 9, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Redfern Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (45) and transit (68). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Redfern Avenue, with 40 reports. Across every category, 142 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name blocked driveway. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 32 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 12. The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 21 homes on file, that is about 676 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Redfern Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 13 residential buildings and 21 homes on Redfern Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 19 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 0. That 0 on traffic safety puts Redfern Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 1 on the same scale, with parking at 1. Against every street in the city, Redfern Avenue ranks 65 on tree cover and 55 on food nearby. Redfern Avenue ranks 68 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Redfern Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 45.
None of the 21 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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Redfern Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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