72 Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 72 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 72 Drive in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and tree cover (78). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on 72 Drive, with 48 reports. The whole 311 file on 72 Drive holds 252 reports, and heat and hot water is 19% of it. Missed collection is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then illegal parking at 22. Reports on 72 Drive span 50 distinct 311 categories. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 72 Drive, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 51 Class C violations on 72 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 40 violations on file. Doors follows at 35 violations, then paint and lead at 29. The housing file lists 134 residential buildings on 72 Drive holding 328 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Reported crashes on 72 Drive have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 54, with housing at 13. 72 Drive sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Parking ranks 48 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 26. Against every street in the city, 72 Drive ranks 59 on food nearby and 32 on transit. 72 Drive ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where 72 Drive ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 42% of the 328 homes on file, 139 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 Drive runs through Kew Gardens Hills, Forest Hills and Glendale, 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).