88 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 88 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 88 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 88 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 281 of them. Across every category, 1,409 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to helicopter noise (242 reports) and blocked driveway (204). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 88 Street carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 89 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 88 Street is pests, at 91 violations. Bed bugs follows at 56 violations, then paint and lead at 45. City housing records put 2,563 homes in 1,007 residential buildings on 88 Street, 111 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 88 Street holds about 2.5 homes.
Since 2021, 104 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 56, with traffic safety at 37. That 37 on traffic safety puts 88 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 49 on the same scale, with parking at 42. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and transit at 39. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 88 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 88 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 2,563 homes on file, 304 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, Ozone Park and Jackson Heights, 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).