Seward Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Seward Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Seward Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and tree cover (55). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 11 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Seward Avenue. The housing file lists 34 residential buildings on Seward Avenue holding 36 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 68, with infrastructure at 17. A 17 on infrastructure places Seward Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 53 and parking at 19 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 27 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Seward Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Seward Avenue is quietness, at 87.
Of the 36 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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Seward Avenue runs through Bellerose, 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).