83 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 83 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 83 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (66) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 83 Street, with 537 reports. Across every category, 1,465 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (158 reports) and heat and hot water (150). In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on 83 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 83 Street carries roughly 77 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 241 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 75 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (52 violations) and paint and lead (44). PLUTO counts 869 residential buildings and 1,901 homes on 83 Street, with 110 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on 83 Street have injured 56 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 63, with housing at 27. That 27 on housing puts 83 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 54 and parking at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 35. 83 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 83 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 83 Street is cleanliness, at 66.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,901 homes on file, 175 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Jackson Heights and Middle Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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