88 Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does 88 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 88 Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and tree cover (96). Parking (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on 88 Avenue, with 427 reports, and parking ranks 29 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 88 Avenue holds 1,827 reports, and heat and hot water is 23% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 405 reports, then illegal parking at 317. The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 88 Avenue carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 145 Class C violations on 88 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 99 violations on file. Doors accounts for 86 more, and paint and lead for 72. PLUTO counts 557 residential buildings and 3,322 homes on 88 Avenue, with 69 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6 homes each.
Reported crashes on 88 Avenue have injured 36 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 80, with quietness at 45. That 45 on quietness puts 88 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 62 on the same scale, with housing at 54. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 75 and transit at 67. 88 Avenue ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
The housing file puts 53% of the 3,322 homes on 88 Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,763 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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88 Avenue runs through Bellerose, Jamaica 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).