76 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 76 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against busy avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 76 Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 76 Avenue, with 134 reports. Across every category, 549 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (59 reports) and blocked driveway (48). Reports on 76 Avenue span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 66 reports for every 100 homes on 76 Avenue.
The HPD file on 76 Avenue carries 64 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 76 Avenue is doors, at 31 violations. Pests accounts for 24 more. The housing file lists 265 residential buildings on 76 Avenue holding 837 homes, with 21 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 76 Avenue ranks 72 on quietness and 27 on parking. That 27 on parking puts 76 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 59 on the same scale, with housing at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 12. 76 Avenue ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 76 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 76 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 79.
The housing file puts 16% of the 837 homes on 76 Avenue in rent stabilization, 131 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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76 Avenue runs through Pomonok, Glen Oaks and Kew Gardens Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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