Sutter Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Sutter Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Sutter Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (92) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Sutter Avenue, with 263 reports. Across every category, 884 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 189 reports, and residential noise with 154. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sutter Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Sutter Avenue carries roughly 105 reports per 100 of them.
Sutter Avenue carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. Heat and hot water follows at 15 violations. The housing file lists 566 residential buildings on Sutter Avenue holding 844 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on Sutter Avenue have injured 110 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 85, with parking at 10. That 10 on parking puts Sutter Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 23 and traffic safety at 11 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sutter Avenue, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Sutter Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Sutter Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 92.
None of the 844 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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Sutter Avenue runs through South Ozone Park, Ozone Park and Baisley Park, 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).