82 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 82 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against busy avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 82 Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 82 Avenue, with 134 reports. Across every category, 271 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 53 reports, then damaged tree at 41. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 82 Avenue carries roughly 39 reports per 100 of them.
82 Avenue carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 22 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 10 violations. 233 residential buildings on 82 Avenue hold the 689 homes on file, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
Reported crashes on 82 Avenue have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 82 Avenue ranks 92 on housing and 35 on parking. A 35 on parking places 82 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 91 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 78. Against every street in the city, 82 Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 28 on transit. 82 Avenue ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where 82 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
About 18% of the 689 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 126 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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82 Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, Oakland Gardens and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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