70 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 70 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 70 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (84) and tree cover (96). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 70 Street, with 759 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,322 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 235 reports, and residential noise with 90. Reports on 70 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,197 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 29 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 70 Street is pests, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (47 violations) and doors (13). PLUTO counts 772 residential buildings and 2,197 homes on 70 Street, with 154 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 72 people injured in crashes on 70 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 75, with cleanliness at 39. A 39 on cleanliness places 70 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 44 and infrastructure at 43. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and transit at 46. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 70 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 70 Street is quietness, at 84.
About 10% of the 2,197 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 187 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 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Maspeth and Middle Village, 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).