66 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 66 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 66 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (91). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 66 Street, with 393 reports, and parking ranks 7 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 66 Street holds 927 reports, and illegal parking is 42% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (165 reports) and residential noise (121). Reports on 66 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 66 Street carries roughly 93 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on 66 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 56 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 42 more, and paint and lead for 22. City housing records put 997 homes in 416 residential buildings on 66 Street, 98 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 40 people injured in crashes on 66 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 49, with infrastructure at 29. 66 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 39 and traffic safety at 35. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 29. 66 Street ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 66 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 66 Street is cleanliness, at 55.
About 6% of the 997 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 59 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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66 Street runs through Maspeth, Woodside and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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