85 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 85 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 85 Road in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and tree cover (87). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 85 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 591 of them, and parking ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 882 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 67% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 176 reports, and residential noise with 99. Reports on 85 Road span 57 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 981 homes on file, that is about 90 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 69 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 30 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (25 violations) and paint and lead (20). City housing records put 981 homes in 311 residential buildings on 85 Road, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 85 Road holds about 3.2 homes.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on 85 Road since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 65 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 28. 85 Road sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 42 and infrastructure at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 23. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 85 Road, at 87. 85 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 85 Road is traffic safety, at 74.
About 50% of the 981 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 489 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 Road runs through Woodhaven, Bellerose and Jamaica Estates, 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).