72 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 72 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 72 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (79) and tree cover (95). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 72 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 561 of them, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 72 Street holds 1,629 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 161 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 114. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. About 76 reports per 100 homes sit on 72 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 152 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 151 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 116 more, and doors for 68. 766 residential buildings on 72 Street hold the 2,137 homes on file, 173 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 58 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 72 Street ranks 70 on cleanliness and 37 on housing. 72 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 64 and traffic safety at 57 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 72 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 72 Street is quietness, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 2,137 homes on file, 437 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 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Maspeth and Woodside, 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).