77 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 77 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 77 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (72) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 77 Street, with 721 reports. Across every category, 1,800 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 293 reports, then residential noise at 160. Reports on 77 Street span 91 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 77 Street carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
77 Street carries 46 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 94 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (50 violations) and doors (29). 1,081 residential buildings on 77 Street hold the 2,898 homes on file, 171 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Reported crashes on 77 Street have injured 101 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 77 Street ranks 66 on quietness and 24 on parking. 77 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 59 and traffic safety at 46. Food nearby ranks 71 and transit 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 77 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 72.
About 19% of the 2,898 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 549 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 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Ozone Park and Woodhaven, 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).