72 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 72 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 45, 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 Road in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (84). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 72 Road name heat and hot water than any other category, 81 of them. The whole 311 file on 72 Road holds 681 reports, and heat and hot water is 12% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 66 reports, and dead and dying tree with 49. The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 72 Road carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 109 Class C violations on 72 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 72 Road is paint and lead, at 87 violations. Behind it the file holds mold (85 violations) and pests (63). City housing records put 968 homes in 124 residential buildings on 72 Road, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on 72 Road since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 72 Road ranks 54 on cleanliness and 14 on housing. 72 Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 45 and traffic safety at 44. Against every street in the city, 72 Road ranks 59 on food nearby and 20 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 72 Road, at 84. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 72 Road is scored inside.
Parking is where 72 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 59.
41% of the 968 homes recorded on 72 Road are rent-stabilized, 396 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 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).