98 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does 98 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 18, 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 (58) and food nearby (74). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 98 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 30 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 23% of the 131 reports on file here. After that the file runs to plumbing (17 reports) and paint and plaster (12). Reports on 98 Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 98 Avenue carries roughly 291 reports per 100 of them.
98 Avenue carries 11 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. HPD's most-cited category on 98 Avenue is pests, at 10 violations. City housing records put 45 homes in 14 residential buildings on 98 Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 40, with parking at 2. That 2 on parking puts 98 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 21 and quietness at 4 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 23 and transit 17, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 98 Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where 98 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 58.
The housing file puts 44% of the 45 homes on 98 Avenue in rent stabilization, 20 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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98 Avenue runs through Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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