83 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 83 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 83 Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 83 Avenue, with 284 reports. The whole 311 file on 83 Avenue holds 839 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. Residential noise follows with 161 reports, and heat and hot water with 126. In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on 83 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 67 reports for every 100 homes on 83 Avenue.
Inspectors have written 102 Class C violations on 83 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 68 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (53 violations) and pests (51). The housing file lists 224 residential buildings on 83 Avenue holding 1,258 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.6 homes each.
NYPD records 33 people injured in crashes on 83 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 83 Avenue ranks 50 on traffic safety and 22 on quietness. That 22 on quietness puts 83 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Parking ranks 50 on the same scale, with housing at 40. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 23. 83 Avenue ranks 95 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 83 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 1,258 homes on file, 404 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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83 Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, Bellerose and Kew Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).