82 Drive, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 82 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 82 Drive in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and tree cover (75). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 82 Drive, with 30 reports. Across every category, 171 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Reports on 82 Drive span 33 distinct 311 categories. About 31 reports per 100 homes sit on 82 Drive, counting every category.
82 Drive carries 69 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 92 violations on file. PLUTO counts 53 residential buildings and 545 homes on 82 Drive, with 3 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 92, with housing at 27. A 27 on housing places 82 Drive in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 90 and parking at 79. The citywide frame puts transit at 69 and food nearby at 12. 82 Drive ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 82 Drive is quietness, at 93.
The housing file puts 72% of the 545 homes on 82 Drive in rent stabilization, 392 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 Drive runs through Jamaica Hills, Pomonok and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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