79 Lane, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 79 Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 79 Lane in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (33). Parking (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 79 Lane name illegal parking than any other category, 87 of them, and parking ranks 15 among quiet residential streets. Behind it sits abandoned vehicle, with 13 reports. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on 79 Lane. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 79 Lane, counting every category.
The HPD file on 79 Lane holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 106 homes in 52 residential buildings on 79 Lane, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 90 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 16. That 16 on infrastructure puts 79 Lane in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 67 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and transit at 19. 79 Lane ranks 33 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 106 on 79 Lane.
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 Lane runs through Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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