Sanford Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Sanford Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Sanford Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (80) and food nearby (93). Housing (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Sanford Avenue, with 441 reports. The whole 311 file on Sanford Avenue holds 1,660 reports, and heat and hot water is 27% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 202 reports, then illegal parking at 194. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sanford Avenue. About 46 reports per 100 homes sit on Sanford Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Sanford Avenue carries 327 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Sanford Avenue, 176 violations of it. Pests follows at 164 violations, then doors at 134. 185 residential buildings on Sanford Avenue hold the 3,620 homes on file, 61 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 28 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 20 homes each.
Reported crashes on Sanford Avenue have injured 117 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 75 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 43. That 43 on traffic safety puts Sanford Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 71 and cleanliness at 59 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Sanford Avenue ranks 90 on tree cover and 66 on transit. Sanford 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.
Quietness is where Sanford Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.
About 37% of the 3,620 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,352 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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Sanford Avenue runs through Murray Hill and Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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