69 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 69 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against busy avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 69 Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and tree cover (100). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 69 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 357 of them. Across every category, 868 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 113 reports, and damaged tree with 58. Reports on 69 Avenue span 79 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 43 reports for every 100 homes on 69 Avenue.
The HPD file on 69 Avenue carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 69 Avenue, 42 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 23 more. PLUTO counts 774 residential buildings and 2,005 homes on 69 Avenue, with 73 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
NYPD records 47 people injured in crashes on 69 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 90, with parking at 39. 69 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 68 and traffic safety at 64. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 28. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 69 Avenue, at 100. 69 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is where 69 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 91.
15% of the 2,005 homes recorded on 69 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 295 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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69 Avenue runs through Fresh Meadows, Forest Hills and Oakland Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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