116 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 116 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 116 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and tree cover (95). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 116 Street, with 388 reports, and parking ranks 31 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 116 Street holds 1,139 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 308 reports, then residential noise at 209. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,082 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 116 Street carries 41 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 116 Street, 77 violations of it. Doors accounts for 30 more, and bed bugs for 26. The housing file lists 748 residential buildings on 116 Street holding 2,082 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 116 Street have injured 34 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 59, with infrastructure at 37. That 37 on infrastructure puts 116 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 53 and housing at 51. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 116 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 116 Street is traffic safety, at 77.
About 22% of the 2,082 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 456 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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116 Street runs through South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and South Richmond Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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