74 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 74 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 74 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 74 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 526 of them. Across every category, 1,448 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 257 reports, and residential noise with 90. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 70 reports per 100 homes sit on 74 Street, counting every category.
74 Street carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 74 Street is pests, at 93 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (56 violations) and paint and lead (22). 779 residential buildings on 74 Street hold the 2,074 homes on file, 232 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Since 2021, 74 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 74 Street ranks 49 on housing and 22 on parking. A 22 on parking places 74 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 47 and cleanliness at 35 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 74 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 2,074 homes on file, 369 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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74 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Middle Village, 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).