Seneca Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Seneca Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Seneca Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and food nearby (91). Quietness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise leads the 311 file on Seneca Avenue, with 404 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,401 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name commercial noise. Illegal posting is the next most-filed at 164 reports, then illegal parking at 157. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Seneca Avenue carries roughly 125 reports per 100 of them.
Seneca Avenue carries 64 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Seneca Avenue is pests, at 98 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 82 more, and doors for 54. City housing records put 1,120 homes in 261 residential buildings on Seneca Avenue, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 89 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Seneca Avenue ranks 77 on infrastructure and 52 on traffic safety. Seneca Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 72 and cleanliness at 58. Tree cover ranks 87 and transit 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Seneca Avenue, at 91. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Seneca Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Seneca Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 1,120 homes on file, 54 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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Seneca Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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