97 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 97 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 97 Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and tree cover (95). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 97 Avenue, with 472 reports, and parking ranks 1 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,631 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 381 reports, and residential noise with 120. Reports on 97 Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,378 homes on file, that is about 118 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 97 Avenue carries 42 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 97 Avenue is pests, at 79 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (49 violations) and paint and lead (17). The housing file lists 669 residential buildings on 97 Avenue holding 1,378 homes, with 104 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
NYPD records 62 people injured in crashes on 97 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 56 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 8. That 8 on infrastructure puts 97 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 50 and traffic safety at 34 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 97 Avenue ranks 62 on food nearby and 53 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 97 Avenue, at 95. 97 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 97 Avenue is cleanliness, at 70.
About 3% of the 1,378 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 35 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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97 Avenue runs through Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill and Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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