79 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 79 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 79 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (100). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 79 Street, with 1,718 reports, and parking ranks 7 among numbered streets. Across every category, 3,267 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 53% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (500 reports) and blocked driveway (452). Reports on 79 Street span 80 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 91 reports for every 100 homes on 79 Street.
The HPD file on 79 Street carries 67 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 79 Street, 127 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 87 more, and paint and lead for 39. City housing records put 3,587 homes in 1,387 residential buildings on 79 Street, 206 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 116 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 53, with infrastructure at 21. That 21 on infrastructure puts 79 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 47 on the same scale, with quietness at 36. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 77 and transit at 46. 79 Street ranks 100 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
About 12% of the 3,587 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 414 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 Street runs through Middle Village, Jackson Heights and Howard Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).