78 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 78 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 78 Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and tree cover (95). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity is the most-filed complaint on 78 Avenue, with 1,305 reports. Across every category, 2,365 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name drug activity. After that the file runs to traffic (1,004 reports) and vehicle noise (927). Reports on 78 Avenue span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,293 homes on file, that is about 183 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 7 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 78 Avenue is bed bugs, at 48 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (21 violations) and paint and lead (11). City housing records put 1,293 homes in 468 residential buildings on 78 Avenue, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 21 people injured in crashes on 78 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 78 Avenue ranks 73 on traffic safety and 2 on cleanliness. A 2 on cleanliness places 78 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 53 and parking at 13 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 78 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 78 Avenue is housing, at 93.
About 3% of the 1,293 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 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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78 Avenue runs through Glendale, Kew Gardens Hills and Pomonok, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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