158 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 158 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 43, 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 158 Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (73). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 158 Avenue, with 36 reports. Across every category, 82 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed, with 20 reports. Reports on 158 Avenue span 21 distinct 311 categories. About 61 reports per 100 homes sit on 158 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 158 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 106 residential buildings on 158 Avenue hold the 135 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 158 Avenue have injured 14 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 67 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 13. 158 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Quietness ranks 49 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 32. Against every street in the city, 158 Avenue ranks 35 on transit and 31 on food nearby. 158 Avenue ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 158 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 158 Avenue is housing, at 97.
Of the 135 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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158 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).