85 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 85 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 85 Drive in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and tree cover (76). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 85 Drive, with 607 reports, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 981 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 62% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 83 reports, and blocked driveway with 81. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 878 homes on file, that is about 112 reports per 100 homes.
85 Drive carries 42 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 38 violations on file. Pests accounts for 33 more, and doors for 19. PLUTO counts 216 residential buildings and 878 homes on 85 Drive, with 22 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on 85 Drive since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 57, with quietness at 25. 85 Drive sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts housing at 49 and cleanliness at 39 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, 85 Drive ranks 69 on transit and 68 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 76. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
The housing file puts 40% of the 878 homes on 85 Drive in rent stabilization, 351 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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85 Drive runs through Jamaica Hills, Woodhaven and Richmond Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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