64 Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does 64 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.

Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts 64 Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (95) and tree cover (96). Transit (28) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

More 311 reports on 64 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 322 of them. The whole 311 file on 64 Avenue holds 1,090 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 294 reports, and blocked driveway with 197. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on 64 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on 64 Avenue.

Inspectors have written 130 Class C violations on 64 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 64 Avenue is bed bugs, at 72 violations. Doors accounts for 70 more, and paint and lead for 44. The housing file lists 298 residential buildings on 64 Avenue holding 3,195 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.

NYPD records 38 people injured in crashes on 64 Avenue since 2021.

Among busy avenues, 64 Avenue ranks 82 on traffic safety and 52 on parking. That 52 on parking puts 64 Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 79 and housing at 64. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 28. 64 Avenue ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 64 Avenue is quietness, at 87.

Rent stabilization covers about 47% of the 3,195 homes on file, 1,503 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

64 Avenue runs through Fresh Meadows, Oakland Gardens and Forest Hills, 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).

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