Shore Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Shore Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Shore Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (69) and tree cover (58). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Shore Avenue, with 66 reports. The whole 311 file on Shore Avenue holds 90 reports, and heat and hot water is 73% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 24 reports. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shore Avenue. Set against the 128 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Shore Avenue carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Shore Avenue is pests, at 26 violations. Behind it the file holds mold (17 violations) and heat and hot water (11). 73 residential buildings on Shore Avenue hold the 128 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 45, with parking at 20. A 20 on parking places Shore Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 30 and traffic safety at 20. Against every street in the city, Shore Avenue ranks 40 on transit and 35 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 58. Shore Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Shore Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 69.
None of the 128 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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Shore Avenue runs through South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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