99 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 99 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 99 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (53) and tree cover (97). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 99 Street, with 386 reports. Across every category, 2,273 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (323 reports) and heat and hot water (231). The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 99 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 218 Class C violations on 99 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 99 Street, 192 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 159 more, and doors for 115. PLUTO counts 596 residential buildings and 2,961 homes on 99 Street, with 135 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 123 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 39 among numbered streets and parking ranks 32. 99 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts cleanliness at 39 and traffic safety at 36 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 99 Street, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 99 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where 99 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 53.
About 30% of the 2,961 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 873 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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99 Street runs through Howard Beach, Corona and East Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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