Roosevelt Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Roosevelt Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Roosevelt Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and food nearby (93). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Roosevelt Avenue, with 437 reports. Across every category, 3,163 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking follows with 427 reports, and street condition with 343. Reports on Roosevelt Avenue span 109 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Roosevelt Avenue carries roughly 120 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Roosevelt Avenue carries 142 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Roosevelt Avenue, 136 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 69 violations, then doors at 68. City housing records put 2,641 homes in 368 residential buildings on Roosevelt Avenue, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 502 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 77, with infrastructure at 17. That 17 on infrastructure puts Roosevelt Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 47 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 19. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 88 and transit at 78. Roosevelt Avenue ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
30% of the 2,641 homes recorded on Roosevelt Avenue are rent-stabilized, 782 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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Roosevelt Avenue runs through Flushing, Jackson Heights and North Corona, 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).