156 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 156 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 156 Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (52) and tree cover (77). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 156 Avenue. 33 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on 156 Avenue holds 80 reports, and illegal parking is 46% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 32 reports, and non-emergency police matter with 26. The file runs across 44 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 133 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 156 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 10 violations on file. 82 residential buildings on 156 Avenue hold the 133 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 41 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 24. That 24 on infrastructure puts 156 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 35 on the same scale, with quietness at 34. Against every street in the city, 156 Avenue ranks 25 on transit and 23 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 45.
Of the 133 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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156 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).