86 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 86 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 86 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (97). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 86 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 572 of them, and parking ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 689 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 83% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 116 reports, and residential noise with 72. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 86 Avenue carries roughly 84 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on 86 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 86 Avenue is pests, at 20 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 19 more. The housing file lists 490 residential buildings on 86 Avenue holding 823 homes, with 25 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 53 people injured in crashes on 86 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 86 Avenue ranks 52 on cleanliness and 16 on infrastructure. That 16 on infrastructure puts 86 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 42 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 23. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 59 and transit at 36. 86 Avenue ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 86 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where 86 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 79.
About 16% of the 823 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 133 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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86 Avenue runs through Bellerose, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, 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).