157 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 157 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 157 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 157 Street, with 335 reports. Across every category, 840 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 132 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 126. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on 157 Street. Set against the 1,405 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on 157 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 157 Street, 56 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (51 violations) and paint and lead (28). 775 residential buildings on 157 Street hold the 1,405 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 157 Street have injured 58 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 64 among numbered streets and parking ranks 26. 157 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Quietness ranks 56 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 32. Against every street in the city, 157 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 29 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 157 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 157 Street is cleanliness, at 87.
3% of the 1,405 homes recorded on 157 Street are rent-stabilized, 35 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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157 Street runs through Whitestone, 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).