81 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 81 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 81 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (78) and tree cover (100). Parking (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 81 Street, with 713 reports, and parking ranks 25 among numbered streets. Across every category, 2,185 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (329 reports) and blocked driveway (199). The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on 81 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 147 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 81 Street is pests, at 187 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 164 more, and structure for 100. 950 residential buildings on 81 Street hold the 3,391 homes on file, 131 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 22 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 56 people injured in crashes on 81 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 60 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 37. 81 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 57 and housing at 48. Against every street in the city, 81 Street ranks 68 on food nearby and 35 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 81 Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where 81 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
The housing file puts 22% of the 3,391 homes on 81 Street in rent stabilization, 749 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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81 Street runs through Jackson Heights, Howard Beach and Middle Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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