69 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 69 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 69 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 69 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 310 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 6 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 512 of them. The whole 311 file on 69 Street holds 1,181 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 260 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 167. The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 69 Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 24 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 69 Street, 76 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 67 violations, then paint and lead at 17. The housing file lists 718 residential buildings on 69 Street holding 1,964 homes, with 196 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 73, with cleanliness at 33. A 33 on cleanliness places 69 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 46 on the same scale, with parking at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and transit at 51. 69 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 69 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
The housing file puts 21% of the 1,964 homes on 69 Street in rent stabilization, 403 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 Street runs through Maspeth, Woodside and Jackson Heights, 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).