72 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 72 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against busy avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 72 Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 72 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 181 of them. The whole 311 file on 72 Avenue holds 453 reports, and illegal parking is 40% of it. Dirty condition is the next most-filed at 127 reports, then residential noise at 54. Reports on 72 Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 72 Avenue carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 18 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 72 Avenue is doors, at 19 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 17 more, and pests for 16. 306 residential buildings on 72 Avenue hold the 1,267 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on 72 Avenue have injured 23 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 77, with parking at 45. 72 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 66 and cleanliness at 51. Against every street in the city, 72 Avenue ranks 76 on food nearby and 40 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 72 Avenue, at 95. 72 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 72 Avenue is quietness, at 87.
24% of the 1,267 homes recorded on 72 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 304 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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72 Avenue runs through Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills and Pomonok, 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).