78 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 78 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 78 Road in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and tree cover (89). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 78 Road, with 45 reports. Across every category, 171 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 18 reports, then street condition at 16. In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on 78 Road. Set against the 427 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
78 Road carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 213 residential buildings on 78 Road holding 427 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on 78 Road since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 71, with traffic safety at 23. A 23 on traffic safety places 78 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 52 and parking at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 50. 78 Road ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 78 Road is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 427 homes on file, 7 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 Road runs through Kew Gardens Hills, Pomonok and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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