76 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 76 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 76 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (64) and tree cover (99). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 76 Street, with 1,308 reports, and parking ranks 4 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 76 Street holds 3,028 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (365 reports) and residential noise (313). In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on 76 Street. Set against the 2,618 homes on file, that is about 116 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 154 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 127 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (83 violations) and bed bugs (73). 1,181 residential buildings on 76 Street hold the 2,618 homes on file, 164 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 64 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 63 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 9. A 9 on infrastructure places 76 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 40 and housing at 36. Food nearby ranks 68 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 99. 76 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
About 9% of the 2,618 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 223 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 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Woodhaven 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).