83 Drive, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 83 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 83 Drive in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and transit (77). Tree cover (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street condition leads the 311 file on 83 Drive, with 11 reports. The whole 311 file on 83 Drive holds 33 reports, and street condition is 33% of it. In all, 6 distinct 311 categories are represented on 83 Drive. Set against the 102 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on 83 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 102 homes in 4 residential buildings on 83 Drive, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on 83 Drive since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, 83 Drive ranks 88 on quietness and 21 on housing. A 21 on housing places 83 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 85 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 32. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 73 and tree cover at 10. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 83 Drive, at 77. 83 Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
About 11% of the 102 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 11 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 Drive runs through 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).