61 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 61 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 61 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (85) and tree cover (95). Parking (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 61 Street, with 247 reports, and parking ranks 36 among numbered streets. Across every category, 893 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 152 reports, and residential noise with 73. In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on 61 Street. Set against the 1,728 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 47 Class C violations on 61 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 54 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 31 more, and doors for 19. City housing records put 1,728 homes in 523 residential buildings on 61 Street, 90 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 61 Street holds about 3.3 homes.
Reported crashes on 61 Street have injured 69 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 78, with traffic safety at 45. A 45 on traffic safety places 61 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 69 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 58. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and transit at 56. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 61 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 61 Street is cleanliness, at 85.
The housing file puts 17% of the 1,728 homes on 61 Street in rent stabilization, 294 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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61 Street runs through Woodside, Maspeth and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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