71 Road, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does 71 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 81, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 71 Road in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and food nearby (83). Transit (60) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 71 Road, with 61 reports. Across every category, 186 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to sidewalk condition (35 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (21). In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on 71 Road. Divided by the homes on file, 71 Road carries roughly 17 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 179 residential buildings on 71 Road holding 1,094 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 71 Road have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 61. A 61 on infrastructure places 71 Road in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 83 and parking at 63 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 82 and transit 60, 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 Road, at 83. 71 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 71 Road is quietness, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 1,094 homes on file, 26 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 Road runs through Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills and Glen Oaks, 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).