77 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 77 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 77 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (3) 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 77 Avenue, with 147 reports. Across every category, 539 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (66 reports) and street condition (51). In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on 77 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 77 Avenue carries roughly 43 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 22 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 10 violations. 634 residential buildings on 77 Avenue hold the 1,253 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 23 people injured in crashes on 77 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 89 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 37. That 37 on cleanliness puts 77 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 69 and parking at 45. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 30. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 77 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 77 Avenue is housing, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 1,253 homes on file, 60 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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77 Avenue runs through Kew Gardens Hills, Oakland Gardens and Glendale, 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).