68 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 68 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 68 Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (87) and tree cover (97). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 68 Avenue, with 617 reports, and parking ranks 7 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 68 Avenue holds 1,116 reports, and illegal parking is 55% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 198 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 69. Reports on 68 Avenue span 68 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,266 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on 68 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 68 Avenue, 37 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 22 violations. City housing records put 1,266 homes in 578 residential buildings on 68 Avenue, 75 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 61 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 9. A 9 on infrastructure places 68 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 33 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 59 and transit at 51. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 68 Avenue, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 68 Avenue is housing, at 87.
5% of the 1,266 homes recorded on 68 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 61 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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68 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Ridgewood and Middle Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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