153 Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 153 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against busy avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 153 Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (74). Transit (35) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 153 Avenue name helicopter noise than any other category, 625 of them. Illegal parking follows with 81 reports, and blocked driveway with 23. In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on 153 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 30 reports for every 100 homes on 153 Avenue.
153 Avenue carries 27 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 153 Avenue, 11 violations of it. Pests follows at 10 violations. City housing records put 776 homes in 30 residential buildings on 153 Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 153 Avenue holds about 26 homes.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 91, with quietness at 46. That 46 on quietness puts 153 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 87 on the same scale, with housing at 72. Against every street in the city, 153 Avenue ranks 39 on food nearby and 35 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 153 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 153 Avenue is cleanliness, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 776 homes on file, 22 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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153 Avenue runs through Howard Beach, 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).