62 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 62 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 62 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 62 Avenue, with 188 reports. Across every category, 415 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 68 reports, and blocked driveway with 55. The file runs across 57 distinct 311 categories in all. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on 62 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 62 Avenue carries 26 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 62 Avenue is pests, at 32 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (23 violations) and doors (21). 288 residential buildings on 62 Avenue hold the 953 homes on file, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 23 people injured in crashes on 62 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 75 among busy avenues and parking ranks 30. A 30 on parking places 62 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 55 and cleanliness at 49 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 62 Avenue is quietness, at 92.
About 19% of the 953 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 185 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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62 Avenue runs through Middle Village, Forest Hills and Rego Park, 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).