Sawyer Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Sawyer Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Sawyer Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and food nearby (42). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Sawyer Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 40 residential buildings on Sawyer Avenue hold the 42 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 73 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 51. Sawyer Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 69 and cleanliness at 56. Against every street in the city, Sawyer Avenue ranks 39 on tree cover and 27 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 42. Sawyer Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
None of the 42 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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Sawyer Avenue runs through Queens Village, 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).