157 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 25 out of 100. How does 157 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 25 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 157 Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (63) and tree cover (69). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 157 Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 26 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed, with 35 reports. Across every category, 110 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name abandoned vehicle. Illegal parking follows with 17 reports. Reports on 157 Avenue span 50 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 157 Avenue carries roughly 97 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 157 Avenue. 80 residential buildings on 157 Avenue hold the 113 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 21 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 2. That 2 on traffic safety puts 157 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 16 and infrastructure at 13. The citywide frame puts transit at 38 and food nearby at 27. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 157 Avenue, at 69. 157 Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Housing is where 157 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 63.
Of the 113 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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157 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).