80 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 80 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 80 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (52) and tree cover (100). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 80 Street name vehicle noise than any other category, 1,492 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 80 Street holds 4,934 reports, and vehicle noise is 30% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 1,400 reports, then blocked driveway at 307. The file runs across 97 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,679 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 80 Street carries 122 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 80 Street, 114 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 62 more, and paint and lead for 49. The housing file lists 1,300 residential buildings on 80 Street holding 3,679 homes, with 186 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on 80 Street have injured 197 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 34 among numbered streets and parking ranks 19. A 19 on parking places 80 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 27 and traffic safety at 25 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 80 Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 80 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 45.
19% of the 3,679 homes recorded on 80 Street are rent-stabilized, 682 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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80 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Middle Village and Howard Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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