63 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 63 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 63 Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (90). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 63 Avenue, with 224 reports. Across every category, 606 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Water system is the next most-filed at 104 reports, then blocked driveway at 77. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on 63 Avenue. About 66 reports per 100 homes sit on 63 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 63 Avenue carries 39 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 63 Avenue is pests, at 37 violations. Doors accounts for 25 more, and paint and lead for 25. 429 residential buildings on 63 Avenue hold the 914 homes on file, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 45 people injured in crashes on 63 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 63 Avenue ranks 76 on quietness and 19 on parking. 63 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts housing at 57 and traffic safety at 31 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 63 Avenue ranks 51 on food nearby and 36 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 63 Avenue, at 90. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 63 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 63 Avenue is cleanliness, at 89.
The housing file puts 1% of the 914 homes on 63 Avenue in rent stabilization, 12 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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63 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Middle Village 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).