Van Zandt Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Van Zandt Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Van Zandt Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and tree cover (77). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Overgrown tree and branches leads the 311 file on Van Zandt Avenue, with 11 reports. In all, 14 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Zandt Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Van Zandt Avenue. The housing file lists 82 residential buildings on Van Zandt Avenue holding 84 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 86 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 37. Van Zandt Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 83 and cleanliness at 74. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 12 and transit at 1. Van Zandt Avenue ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Van Zandt Avenue is housing, at 89.
Of the 84 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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Van Zandt Avenue runs through Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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