153 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 153 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 153 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (60) and tree cover (95). Housing (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on 153 Street, with 231 reports. Across every category, 1,184 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to plumbing (147 reports) and residential noise (130). The file runs across 73 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,424 homes on file, that is about 83 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 230 Class C violations on 153 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 153 Street is pests, at 147 violations. Paint and lead follows at 111 violations, then doors at 75. PLUTO counts 358 residential buildings and 1,424 homes on 153 Street, with 25 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
NYPD records 68 people injured in crashes on 153 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 45 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 28. That 28 on traffic safety puts 153 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 44 and quietness at 31 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 153 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 153 Street is parking, at 60.
About 54% of the 1,424 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 770 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 Street runs through Kew Gardens Hills, Murray Hill and South Jamaica, 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).