82 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 82 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 82 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and tree cover (99). Transit (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 82 Street, with 421 reports. Across every category, 1,550 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 162 reports, and residential noise with 146. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,573 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
82 Street carries 181 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 90 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 80 violations, then bed bugs at 65. City housing records put 2,573 homes in 933 residential buildings on 82 Street, 142 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 82 Street holds about 2.8 homes.
Since 2021, 108 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 82 Street ranks 71 on quietness and 38 on parking. A 38 on parking places 82 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 56 and housing at 39 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 72 and transit 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 82 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 82 Street is cleanliness, at 88.
9% of the 2,573 homes recorded on 82 Street are rent-stabilized, 228 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 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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