69 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 69 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 69 Road in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (92) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 69 Road. Since 2021, reported crashes on 69 Road have injured 45 people, and traffic safety ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 68 reports. Across every category, 249 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (56 reports) and missed collection (36). Reports on 69 Road span 55 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on 69 Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on 69 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 14 violations on file. 299 residential buildings on 69 Road hold the 421 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 70, with infrastructure at 14. That 14 on infrastructure puts 69 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 58 and parking at 22. The citywide frame puts transit at 52 and food nearby at 51. 69 Road ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 69 Road is cleanliness, at 81.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 421 on 69 Road.
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 Road runs through Forest Hills, Middle Village 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).