79 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 79 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 79 Place in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and tree cover (79). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 79 Place name illegal parking than any other category, 127 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 62% of the 204 reports on file here. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (41 reports) and blocked driveway (36). In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on 79 Place. Set against the 379 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on 79 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 210 residential buildings on 79 Place hold the 379 homes on file, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among built-up residential streets, 79 Place ranks 76 on housing and 17 on parking. That 17 on parking puts 79 Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 69 and quietness at 66 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 79 Place, at 79. 79 Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where 79 Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 77.
The housing file puts 3% of the 379 homes on 79 Place in rent stabilization, 12 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 Place runs through Middle Village and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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