99 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does 99 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 99 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (43) and tree cover (77). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 99 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 99 Avenue have injured 50 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 99 Avenue, with 136 reports. Across every category, 409 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 85 reports, and consumer complaint with 30. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on 99 Avenue. About 121 reports per 100 homes sit on 99 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 99 Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 99 Avenue, 33 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (16 violations) and plumbing (10). PLUTO counts 212 residential buildings and 338 homes on 99 Avenue, with 16 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, 99 Avenue ranks 34 on infrastructure and 8 on parking. 99 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 32 and housing at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 9. 99 Avenue ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where 99 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 43.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 338 on 99 Avenue.
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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99 Avenue runs through Queens Village and Hollis, 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).