61 Drive, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 61 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 61 Drive in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and transit (51). Food nearby (31) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 61 Drive, with 11 reports. The file runs across 17 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on 61 Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 74 residential buildings on 61 Drive hold the 86 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on 61 Drive have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, 61 Drive ranks 96 on housing and 41 on parking. A 41 on parking places 61 Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 89 and cleanliness at 83. Against every street in the city, 61 Drive ranks 38 on tree cover and 31 on food nearby. 61 Drive ranks 51 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is where 61 Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 98.
Of the 86 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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61 Drive runs through Middle Village, 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).