87 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 87 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 87 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (99). Parking (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 87 Street, with 317 reports, and parking ranks 15 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,054 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 221 reports, and residential noise with 149. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,624 homes on file, that is about 65 reports per 100 homes.
87 Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, 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 Street is pests, at 38 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 26 violations. City housing records put 1,624 homes in 922 residential buildings on 87 Street, 76 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 61 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 77, with infrastructure at 28. 87 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 54 and traffic safety at 32. Against every street in the city, 87 Street ranks 62 on food nearby and 33 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 87 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
2% of the 1,624 homes recorded on 87 Street are rent-stabilized, 40 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Jackson Heights and Ozone Park, 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).