71 Drive, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does 71 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.

Calm 31, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts 71 Drive in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (57) and food nearby (78). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 11 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 33 homes on file, that is about 145 reports per 100 homes.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 71 Drive. PLUTO counts 25 residential buildings and 33 homes on 71 Drive, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, reported crashes on 71 Drive have injured no one.

Among quiet residential streets, 71 Drive ranks 45 on housing and 3 on cleanliness. That 3 on cleanliness puts 71 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 34 and parking at 8 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 29 and tree cover 24, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 71 Drive, at 78. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 71 Drive is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 71 Drive is traffic safety, at 57.

Of the 33 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

71 Drive runs through 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).

The full report for 71 Drive