87 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 87 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 87 Road in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (83). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 87 Road, with 96 reports, and parking ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 328 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 84 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 36. Reports on 87 Road span 43 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 64 reports for every 100 homes on 87 Road.
The HPD file on 87 Road carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 87 Road is pests, at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 317 residential buildings and 510 homes on 87 Road, with 23 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 69 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 28. 87 Road sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 68 on the same scale, with quietness at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and transit at 66. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
The housing file puts 2% of the 510 homes on 87 Road in rent stabilization, 10 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 Road runs through Jamaica Hills, Woodhaven and Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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