Whitney Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Whitney Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Whitney Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and food nearby (86). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Whitney Avenue, with 109 reports. Across every category, 713 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (70 reports) and residential noise (39). The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 750 homes on file, that is about 95 reports per 100 homes.
Whitney Avenue carries 70 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Whitney Avenue, 51 violations of it. Fire safety accounts for 27 more, and paint and lead for 26. 32 residential buildings on Whitney Avenue hold the 750 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
NYPD records 36 people injured in crashes on Whitney Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 62, with traffic safety at 31. That 31 on traffic safety puts Whitney Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 47 and housing at 37. Against every street in the city, Whitney Avenue ranks 78 on transit and 64 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Whitney Avenue, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Whitney Avenue is cleanliness, at 94.
The housing file puts 66% of the 750 homes on Whitney Avenue in rent stabilization, 493 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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Whitney Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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