65 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 65 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 65 Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 65 Avenue, with 195 reports. Across every category, 559 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 71 reports, then residential noise at 49. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,137 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 65 Avenue, 39 violations of it. Doors accounts for 28 more, and bed bugs for 17. 384 residential buildings on 65 Avenue hold the 1,137 homes on file, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 65 Avenue holds about 3 homes.
NYPD records 30 people injured in crashes on 65 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 51, with parking at 31. 65 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 49 and cleanliness at 38 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 65 Avenue ranks 48 on food nearby and 29 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where 65 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 1,137 homes on file, 204 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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65 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows and Pomonok, 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).