84 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 84 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 84 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (66) and tree cover (99). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 84 Street, with 516 reports, and parking ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,782 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Helicopter noise follows with 296 reports, and blocked driveway with 289. The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,892 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 108 Class C violations on 84 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 96 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (74 violations) and structure (66). The housing file lists 1,011 residential buildings on 84 Street holding 2,892 homes, with 87 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
NYPD records 96 people injured in crashes on 84 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 54 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 31. 84 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Housing ranks 47 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 35. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 84 Street, at 99. 84 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is where 84 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 66.
The housing file puts 32% of the 2,892 homes on 84 Street in rent stabilization, 929 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Ozone Park and Jackson Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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