98 Avenue, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade F, 25 out of 100. How does 98 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 25 out of 100.

Calm 19, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 98 Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (57) and food nearby (74); housing (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 98 Avenue, with 30 reports. HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 57 among smaller avenues. About 44% of the 45 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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