Thomson Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Thomson Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Thomson Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (96). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Thomson Avenue. 69 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 31 reports. Across every category, 87 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to noise (14 reports) and street condition (14). In all, 27 distinct 311 categories are represented on Thomson Avenue. About 26 reports per 100 homes sit on Thomson Avenue, counting every category.
Thomson Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 10 violations on file. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 329 homes on Thomson Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 110 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Thomson Avenue ranks 97 on housing and 36 on infrastructure. A 36 on infrastructure places Thomson Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 79 on the same scale, with quietness at 44. Against every street in the city, Thomson Avenue ranks 90 on food nearby and 65 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Thomson Avenue, at 96. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Thomson Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Thomson Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
10% of the 329 homes recorded on Thomson Avenue are rent-stabilized, 34 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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Thomson Avenue runs through Sunnyside 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).