73 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 73 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 73 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (81) and tree cover (94). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 73 Street, with 438 reports, and parking ranks 31 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 73 Street holds 1,142 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 243 reports, then heat and hot water at 143. The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 73 Street carries roughly 57 reports per 100 of them.
73 Street carries 97 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 73 Street is pests, at 84 violations. Doors accounts for 70 more, and paint and lead for 55. PLUTO counts 527 residential buildings and 2,017 homes on 73 Street, with 123 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on 73 Street have injured 50 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 67 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 38. That 38 on cleanliness puts 73 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 61 on the same scale, with housing at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 84 and transit at 46. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 73 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 73 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 73 Street is infrastructure, at 81.
23% of the 2,017 homes recorded on 73 Street are rent-stabilized, 458 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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73 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Maspeth and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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