86 Drive, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 86 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 86 Drive in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and tree cover (40). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on 86 Drive, with 52 reports. The whole 311 file on 86 Drive holds 127 reports, and heat and hot water is 41% of it. Residential noise follows with 24 reports, and illegal parking with 12. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 40 homes on file, that is about 318 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 86 Drive carries 22 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 21 residential buildings on 86 Drive hold the 40 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 68, with housing at 5. That 5 on housing puts 86 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 67 and parking at 22. The citywide frame puts transit at 32 and food nearby at 18. 86 Drive ranks 40 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is where 86 Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 40 on 86 Drive.
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 Drive runs through Woodhaven 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).