97 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 97 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 97 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and tree cover (98). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 97 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 588 of them, and parking ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 2,089 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 580 reports, then residential noise at 235. Reports on 97 Street span 84 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 97 Street carries roughly 74 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 47 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 116 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (100 violations) and doors (36). City housing records put 2,819 homes in 1,003 residential buildings on 97 Street, 252 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 97 Street have injured 103 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 64 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 39. 97 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 52 and quietness at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 76 and transit 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 97 Street, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 97 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 2,819 homes on file, 334 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 Street runs through Ozone Park, East Elmhurst and Howard Beach, 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).