70 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 70 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 70 Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 70 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 265 of them, and cleanliness ranks 30 among busy avenues. Across every category, 558 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 64 reports, and residential noise with 45. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,036 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on 70 Avenue, 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 53 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 27 violations. PLUTO counts 451 residential buildings and 1,036 homes on 70 Avenue, with 69 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on 70 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 61 among busy avenues and parking ranks 36. 70 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Traffic safety ranks 53 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 40. Against every street in the city, 70 Avenue ranks 78 on food nearby and 50 on transit. 70 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
About 9% of the 1,036 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 89 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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70 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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