65 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 65 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 55, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 65 Drive in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (94) and tree cover (64). Food nearby (31) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 65 Drive, with 18 reports. Across every category, 43 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 12 reports. In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on 65 Drive. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on 65 Drive, counting every category.

The HPD file on 65 Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 60 residential buildings and 75 homes on 65 Drive, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 73, with parking at 32. 65 Drive sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 36 and infrastructure at 34 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 38 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 65 Drive, at 64. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 65 Drive is cleanliness, at 83.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 75 on 65 Drive.

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

65 Drive runs through 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).

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