Sayres Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Sayres Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Sayres Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (74). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Sayres Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Sayres Avenue have injured 25 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Reports on Sayres Avenue span 35 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Sayres Avenue carries roughly 29 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sayres Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 98 residential buildings on Sayres Avenue holding 148 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Sayres Avenue ranks 76 on parking and 57 on infrastructure. Sayres Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 69 and quietness at 58 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 35 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 148 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.
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Sayres Avenue runs through St. Albans and South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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