86 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 86 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 86 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (80) and tree cover (99). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 86 Street, with 563 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,341 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 323 reports, then residential noise at 321. Reports on 86 Street span 79 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,789 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on 86 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 86 Street, 42 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 31 violations. City housing records put 1,789 homes in 985 residential buildings on 86 Street, 67 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 68 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 56 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 32. 86 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 44 and traffic safety at 39 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 86 Street ranks 69 on food nearby and 45 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 86 Street, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 86 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
About 9% of the 1,789 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 158 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Ozone Park and Jackson Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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