Spruce Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Spruce Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Spruce Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (94). Tree cover (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Spruce Avenue span 7 distinct 311 categories.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on Spruce Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 7 residential buildings on Spruce Avenue holding 28 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Spruce Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 84, with housing at 9. Spruce Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 62 on the same scale, with parking at 15. Transit ranks 75 and tree cover 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Spruce Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 28 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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Spruce Avenue runs through Corona, 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).