155 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 155 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against busy avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 155 Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (79). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Helicopter noise is the most-filed complaint on 155 Avenue, with 243 reports. Across every category, 285 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 85% of them name helicopter noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 186 reports, then street condition at 19. The file runs across 40 distinct 311 categories in all. About 32 reports per 100 homes sit on 155 Avenue, counting every category.
155 Avenue carries 9 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 155 Avenue is doors, at 14 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 12 violations. The housing file lists 28 residential buildings on 155 Avenue holding 900 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 32 homes each.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 155 Avenue ranks 88 on cleanliness and 41 on parking. That 41 on parking puts 155 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 77 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 77. Against every street in the city, 155 Avenue ranks 40 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 155 Avenue, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where 155 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
The housing file puts 1% of the 900 homes on 155 Avenue in rent stabilization, 7 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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155 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).