Spencer Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Spencer Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Spencer Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (57) and tree cover (48). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Spencer Avenue, with 13 reports. Across every category, 32 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. The file runs across 14 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 44 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Spencer Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 44 homes in 35 residential buildings on Spencer Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Spencer Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 47 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 9. That 9 on infrastructure puts Spencer Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 35 on the same scale, with quietness at 9. Against every street in the city, Spencer Avenue ranks 39 on food nearby and 17 on transit. Spencer Avenue ranks 48 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Spencer Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 57.
Of the 44 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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Spencer Avenue runs through Queens Village, 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).