89 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 89 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 89 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (68) and tree cover (98). Parking (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 89 Street, with 699 reports, and parking ranks 17 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 89 Street holds 1,569 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. Helicopter noise is the next most-filed at 562 reports, then residential noise at 238. Reports on 89 Street span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,173 homes on file, that is about 72 reports per 100 homes.
89 Street carries 41 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 89 Street, 85 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 48 more, and doors for 22. 863 residential buildings on 89 Street hold the 2,173 homes on file, 131 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 89 Street have injured 54 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 62 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 45. A 45 on infrastructure places 89 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 60 and quietness at 47. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 89 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 89 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
About 10% of the 2,173 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 220 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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89 Street runs through Howard Beach, Jackson Heights and Ozone Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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