98 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 98 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 98 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and tree cover (99). Parking (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 98 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 427 of them, and parking ranks 30 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,697 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (396 reports) and residential noise (291). The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,148 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 59 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 94 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 71 more, and doors for 41. 852 residential buildings on 98 Street hold the 3,148 homes on file, 151 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 98 Street holds about 3.7 homes.
Reported crashes on 98 Street have injured 81 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 98 Street ranks 63 on housing and 47 on infrastructure. 98 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 58 and quietness at 50 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 98 Street is cleanliness, at 67.
About 20% of the 3,148 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 628 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 Street runs through Howard Beach, East Elmhurst and Ozone Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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