65 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 65 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 65 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (62) and tree cover (95). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 65 Street, with 673 reports, and parking ranks 4 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,386 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (232 reports) and residential noise (97). The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. About 107 reports per 100 homes sit on 65 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on 65 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 63 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 41 violations, then doors at 28. City housing records put 1,296 homes in 582 residential buildings on 65 Street, 108 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on 65 Street have injured 50 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 42 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 12. That 12 on infrastructure puts 65 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 36 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 32. Food nearby ranks 79 and transit 62, 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 Street, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 65 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 65 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 62.
14% of the 1,296 homes recorded on 65 Street are rent-stabilized, 184 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 Street runs through Woodside, Glendale and Maspeth, 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).