Skillman Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Skillman Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Skillman Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (90) and transit (91). Traffic safety (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Skillman Avenue. 94 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 28 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Skillman Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 240 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 35% of the 689 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 75 reports, and residential noise with 60. Reports on Skillman Avenue span 85 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 87 reports for every 100 homes on Skillman Avenue.
The HPD file on Skillman Avenue carries 46 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Skillman Avenue, 30 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (25 violations) and paint and lead (18). The housing file lists 113 residential buildings on Skillman Avenue holding 790 homes, with 44 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 63 among busy avenues and parking ranks 41. Skillman Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Infrastructure ranks 60 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 52. Against every street in the city, Skillman Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover and 78 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Skillman Avenue, at 91. Skillman Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
48% of the 790 homes recorded on Skillman Avenue are rent-stabilized, 376 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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Skillman Avenue runs through Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City, 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).