90 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 90 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 90 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (71) and tree cover (98). Housing (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 90 Street, with 979 reports. Across every category, 2,234 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (210 reports) and residential noise (139). In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on 90 Street. About 84 reports per 100 homes sit on 90 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 298 Class C violations on 90 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 90 Street, 257 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 152 violations, then doors at 96. 805 residential buildings on 90 Street hold the 2,669 homes on file, 109 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 106 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 67, with parking at 25. A 25 on parking places 90 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 38. Food nearby ranks 78 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 90 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 90 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 90 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 71.
About 16% of the 2,669 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 422 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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90 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).