62 Drive, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 62 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 62 Drive in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (79) and tree cover (78). Traffic safety (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 62 Drive. 49 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 23 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 62 Drive, with 101 reports. The whole 311 file on 62 Drive holds 465 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (74 reports) and blocked driveway (41). The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,712 homes on file, that is about 27 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 62 Drive carries 36 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 62 Drive is doors, at 34 violations. Pests accounts for 17 more, and paint and lead for 13. The housing file lists 278 residential buildings on 62 Drive holding 1,712 homes, with 25 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.2 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, 62 Drive ranks 63 on infrastructure and 57 on parking. A 57 on parking places 62 Drive in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 61 and cleanliness at 58. Against every street in the city, 62 Drive ranks 68 on food nearby and 67 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 62 Drive, at 78. 62 Drive is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 1,712 homes on file, 68 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 Drive runs through Forest Hills, Rego Park and 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).