79 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 79 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 54, 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 79 Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 79 Avenue, with 92 reports, and cleanliness ranks 15 among busy avenues. Across every category, 297 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 59 reports, and blocked driveway with 57. In all, 54 distinct 311 categories are represented on 79 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 79 Avenue carries roughly 37 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 79 Avenue carries 21 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 79 Avenue is bed bugs, at 12 violations. 177 residential buildings on 79 Avenue hold the 801 homes on file, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 79 Avenue holds about 4.5 homes.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on 79 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 83, with infrastructure at 17. A 17 on infrastructure places 79 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 64 and parking at 48 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 79 Avenue ranks 90 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 79 Avenue is housing, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 801 homes on file, 28 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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79 Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, Kew Gardens Hills and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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