62 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 62 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 62 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and tree cover (93). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 62 Street, with 472 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. Across every category, 905 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (159 reports) and residential noise (100). In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on 62 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 62 Street carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
62 Street carries 32 Class C violations on its HPD file, 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 Street is pests, at 57 violations. Doors follows at 35 violations, then bed bugs at 31. City housing records put 1,301 homes in 517 residential buildings on 62 Street, 102 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
NYPD records 26 people injured in crashes on 62 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 62 Street ranks 68 on traffic safety and 20 on infrastructure. That 20 on infrastructure puts 62 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 60 and quietness at 59. Food nearby ranks 77 and transit 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 62 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 62 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 1,301 homes on file, 277 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 Street runs through Woodside, Maspeth and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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