78 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 78 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 78 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (100). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 78 Street, with 1,421 reports, and parking ranks 13 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 78 Street holds 2,260 reports, and illegal parking is 63% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 511 reports, then residential noise at 223. The file runs across 92 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 78 Street carries roughly 77 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 78 Street, 69 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 53 more, and paint and lead for 14. City housing records put 2,938 homes in 1,262 residential buildings on 78 Street, 134 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 78 Street holds about 2.3 homes.
Since 2021, 71 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 19. That 19 on infrastructure puts 78 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 58 and quietness at 38 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 72 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. 78 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 78 Street is housing, at 85.
2% of the 2,938 homes recorded on 78 Street are rent-stabilized, 44 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 Street runs through Middle Village, Jackson Heights and Ozone Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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