71 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 71 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 71 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (77) and tree cover (94). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 71 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 612 of them, and parking ranks 19 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 63% of the 976 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 173 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 91. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,682 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 71 Street carries 12 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 71 Street is bed bugs, at 51 violations. Pests accounts for 49 more. The housing file lists 793 residential buildings on 71 Street holding 1,682 homes, with 184 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
NYPD records 39 people injured in crashes on 71 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 71 Street ranks 76 on quietness and 21 on infrastructure. A 21 on infrastructure places 71 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 62 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 46. Against every street in the city, 71 Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 39 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 71 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,682 on 71 Street.
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 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).