68 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 68 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 68 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (91). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 68 Street, with 275 reports, and parking ranks 19 among numbered streets. Across every category, 666 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 200 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 67. Reports on 68 Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 68 Street carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, 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 Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 45 violations. 473 residential buildings on 68 Street hold the 1,198 homes on file, 162 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 68 Street have injured 31 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 72 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 43. A 43 on infrastructure places 68 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 63 and traffic safety at 59 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 68 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 1,198 homes on file, 92 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 Street runs through Maspeth, Woodside and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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