70 Drive, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 70 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 70 Drive in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and food nearby (78). Transit (25) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 70 Drive, with 11 reports. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on 70 Drive.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 70 Drive. The housing file lists 47 residential buildings on 70 Drive holding 85 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on 70 Drive have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, 70 Drive ranks 84 on quietness and 51 on infrastructure. A 51 on infrastructure places 70 Drive in the stronger half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 79 and housing at 55 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 35 and transit 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 70 Drive is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 70 Drive is traffic safety, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 85 on 70 Drive.
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 Drive runs through Forest Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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