96 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 96 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 96 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and tree cover (99). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 96 Street, with 506 reports, and parking ranks 19 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 217 reports, then blocked driveway at 211. The file runs across 73 distinct 311 categories in all. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on 96 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 96 Street carries 54 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 96 Street is pests, at 86 violations. Paint and lead follows at 69 violations, then bed bugs at 60. City housing records put 1,640 homes in 883 residential buildings on 96 Street, 106 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 46 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 30. That 30 on infrastructure puts 96 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 43 and quietness at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 96 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 96 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,640 homes on file, 155 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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96 Street runs through Howard Beach, Ozone Park and East Elmhurst, 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).