86 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 86 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 86 Road in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (63) and tree cover (84). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 86 Road, with 183 reports, and parking ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 641 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (82 reports) and residential noise (62). The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 86 Road carries roughly 96 reports per 100 of them.
86 Road carries 46 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 34 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (17 violations) and doors (14). The housing file lists 275 residential buildings on 86 Road holding 667 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 86 Road have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 47 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 28. 86 Road sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 33 on the same scale, with housing at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and transit at 63. 86 Road ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 63.
33% of the 667 homes recorded on 86 Road are rent-stabilized, 223 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 Road runs through Woodhaven, Jamaica Hills and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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