157 Street, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 157 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 46, 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 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and tree cover (98); infrastructure (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 157 Street, with 335 reports. HPD has cited 27 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 58 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 87 among numbered streets. Only about 3% of the 1,405 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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