87 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 87 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 87 Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (64) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 87 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 301 of them. The whole 311 file on 87 Avenue holds 748 reports, and illegal parking is 40% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 123 reports, then residential noise at 72. Reports on 87 Avenue span 66 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 100 reports for every 100 homes on 87 Avenue.
87 Avenue carries 24 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 47 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 13 more. City housing records put 747 homes in 470 residential buildings on 87 Avenue, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 59, with parking at 4. A 4 on parking places 87 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 54 and quietness at 48 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 87 Avenue ranks 51 on food nearby and 30 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 87 Avenue, at 96. 87 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 87 Avenue is cleanliness, at 64.
The housing file puts 3% of the 747 homes on 87 Avenue in rent stabilization, 24 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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87 Avenue runs through Bellerose, Jamaica Hills 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).