84 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 84 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 84 Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (60) and tree cover (91). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on 84 Avenue, with 78 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among busy avenues. Across every category, 413 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 64 reports, and blocked driveway with 64. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on 84 Avenue. Set against the 657 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 84 Avenue carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 84 Avenue, 15 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (12 violations) and doors (11). The housing file lists 265 residential buildings on 84 Avenue holding 657 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 84 Avenue have injured 15 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 53, with infrastructure at 11. That 11 on infrastructure puts 84 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with parking at 27. Transit ranks 46 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 84 Avenue, at 91. 84 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 84 Avenue is traffic safety, at 56.
The housing file puts 12% of the 657 homes on 84 Avenue in rent stabilization, 79 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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84 Avenue runs through Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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