68 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 68 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 68 Road in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 68 Road, with 203 reports. Across every category, 439 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (73 reports) and residential noise (33). Reports on 68 Road span 55 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 59 reports for every 100 homes on 68 Road.
HPD has cited 37 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 43 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 32 violations, then paint and lead at 15. City housing records put 750 homes in 266 residential buildings on 68 Road, 61 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on 68 Road have injured 14 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 68 Road ranks 41 on cleanliness and 32 on parking. 68 Road sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 41 and housing at 33 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 68 Road, at 87. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 68 Road is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
About 16% of the 750 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 117 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 Road runs through Forest Hills, Middle Village and Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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