68 Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 68 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 68 Drive in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (75) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street condition is the most-filed complaint on 68 Drive, with 59 reports. The whole 311 file on 68 Drive holds 272 reports, and street condition is 22% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 41 reports, then blocked driveway at 29. Reports on 68 Drive span 53 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 68 Drive carries roughly 50 reports per 100 of them.
68 Drive carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 68 Drive is paint and lead, at 30 violations. Pests accounts for 13 more. PLUTO counts 144 residential buildings and 541 homes on 68 Drive, with 12 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 68 Drive have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 68 Drive ranks 56 on parking and 38 on quietness. That 38 on quietness puts 68 Drive in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 43 and traffic safety at 39. Transit ranks 49 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 68 Drive ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 68 Drive is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
About 20% of the 541 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 107 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 Drive runs through Forest Hills and Kew Gardens Hills, 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).