97 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 97 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 97 Place in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and food nearby (72). Parking (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 97 Place, with 76 reports, and parking ranks 21 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 179 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (59 reports) and maintenance or facility (16). The file runs across 40 distinct 311 categories in all. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on 97 Place, counting every category.
97 Place carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 64 residential buildings on 97 Place holding 383 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6 homes each.
Reported crashes on 97 Place have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 97 Place ranks 50 on housing and 29 on traffic safety. A 29 on traffic safety places 97 Place in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 47 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 44. Tree cover ranks 69 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. 97 Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 97 Place is quietness, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 383 homes on file, 10 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 Place runs through Corona and Rego 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).