156 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does 156 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 156 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (60) and tree cover (94). Transit (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 156 Street, with 239 reports. Across every category, 714 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 163 reports, and residential noise with 121. The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 156 Street carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
156 Street 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 156 Street, 54 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 21 violations. City housing records put 947 homes in 573 residential buildings on 156 Street, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on 156 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 45, with parking at 16. A 16 on parking places 156 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 36 and infrastructure at 30 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. 156 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 60.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 947 homes on file, 18 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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156 Street runs through East Flushing, South Jamaica and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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