150 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 150 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 150 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and tree cover (100). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 150 Street. 358 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among numbered streets. Blocked driveway draws more reports than anything else here, 679 of them. The whole 311 file on 150 Street holds 1,625 reports, and blocked driveway is 42% of it. Illegal parking follows with 275 reports, and heat and hot water with 139. The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,437 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
150 Street carries 163 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 150 Street, 99 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 68 more, and doors for 44. City housing records put 2,437 homes in 653 residential buildings on 150 Street, 66 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.7 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 62, with parking at 39. 150 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 56 and housing at 48. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 150 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 150 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 72.
The housing file puts 21% of the 2,437 homes on 150 Street in rent stabilization, 500 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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150 Street runs through Whitestone, Kew Gardens Hills and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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