66 Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does 66 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against busy avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 66 Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (81). Parking (44) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 66 Avenue, with 151 reports, and parking ranks 44 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 66 Avenue holds 449 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 136 reports, and blocked driveway with 82. Reports on 66 Avenue span 57 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on 66 Avenue.
Inspectors have written 50 Class C violations on 66 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 66 Avenue is doors, at 31 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (25 violations) and paint and lead (24). PLUTO counts 242 residential buildings and 1,408 homes on 66 Avenue, with 18 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 66 Avenue holds about 5.8 homes.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on 66 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 94 among busy avenues and housing ranks 65. 66 Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on housing. Cleanliness ranks 84 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 72. Against every street in the city, 66 Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 45 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 66 Avenue, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where 66 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 95.
37% of the 1,408 homes recorded on 66 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 522 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
- 66 Road, Queens
- 108 Street, Queens
- 67 Road, Queens
- 67 Drive, Queens
- Yellowstone Boulevard, Queens
- 65 Road, Queens
66 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Rego Park and Douglaston, 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).