70 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 70 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 70 Road in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and tree cover (90). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 70 Road. Since 2021, reported crashes on 70 Road have injured 28 people, and traffic safety ranks 12 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 83 reports. Across every category, 256 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (49 reports) and water system (29). Reports on 70 Road span 59 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 55 reports for every 100 homes on 70 Road.
The HPD file on 70 Road carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 261 residential buildings on 70 Road hold the 465 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 16. That 16 on infrastructure puts 70 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 50 and parking at 25. Against every street in the city, 70 Road ranks 80 on food nearby and 52 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 70 Road, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 465 on 70 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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70 Road runs through Kew Gardens Hills and Forest 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).