71 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 71 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 71 Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and tree cover (98). Transit (31) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 71 Avenue, with 236 reports. Across every category, 1,129 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Indoor air quality follows with 164 reports, and residential noise with 157. In all, 89 distinct 311 categories are represented on 71 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 71 Avenue carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
71 Avenue carries 44 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 71 Avenue is pests, at 48 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (28 violations) and doors (24). The housing file lists 400 residential buildings on 71 Avenue holding 2,487 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 69 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 79, with infrastructure at 38. That 38 on infrastructure puts 71 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 55 on the same scale, with parking at 53. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 71 Avenue, at 98. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 71 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 71 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 2,487 homes on file, 517 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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71 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Pomonok and Kew Gardens 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).