85 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 85 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 85 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (98). Parking (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 85 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 388 of them, and parking ranks 22 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 85 Street holds 1,611 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (370 reports) and helicopter noise (361). Reports on 85 Street span 85 distinct 311 categories. About 67 reports per 100 homes sit on 85 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on 85 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 80 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (61 violations) and paint and lead (23). 834 residential buildings on 85 Street hold the 2,416 homes on file, 111 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 85 Street holds about 2.9 homes.
Reported crashes on 85 Street have injured 66 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 85 Street ranks 55 on traffic safety and 31 on quietness. 85 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts cleanliness at 54 and infrastructure at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 67 and transit 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
The housing file puts 10% of the 2,416 homes on 85 Street in rent stabilization, 238 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Jackson Heights and Woodhaven, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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