Street James Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Street James Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street James Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (81) and food nearby (91). Quietness (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Street James Avenue, with 87 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 150 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 51 reports, and blocked driveway with 25. In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Street James Avenue. Set against the 429 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on Street James Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Street James Avenue is pests, at 13 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead, at 10 violations. The housing file lists 78 residential buildings on Street James Avenue holding 429 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.5 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Street James Avenue ranks 53 on traffic safety and 39 on housing. Street James Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 43 and parking at 42. The citywide frame puts transit at 79 and tree cover at 42. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Street James Avenue, at 91. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Street James Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Street James Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 42% of the 429 homes on file, 182 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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Street James Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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