87 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 87 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 87 Drive in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and tree cover (78). Housing (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 87 Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 42 of them. The whole 311 file on 87 Drive holds 273 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then residential noise at 31. Reports on 87 Drive span 49 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 486 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 42 Class C violations on 87 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on 87 Drive, 42 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (39 violations) and doors (19). City housing records put 486 homes in 165 residential buildings on 87 Drive, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 71, with infrastructure at 30. 87 Drive sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 57 and cleanliness at 43. Against every street in the city, 87 Drive ranks 59 on food nearby and 29 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 87 Drive, at 78. 87 Drive is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 87 Drive is traffic safety, at 73.
About 49% of the 486 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 239 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 Drive runs through Bellerose, Jamaica Hills and Jamaica Estates, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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