158 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 158 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 158 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (93). Parking (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 158 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 169 of them, and parking ranks 28 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 27% of the 623 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 146 reports, then residential noise at 54. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,224 homes on file, that is about 51 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 158 Street carries 14 Class C violations, 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 158 Street, 38 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 10 violations, then structure at 10. The housing file lists 548 residential buildings on 158 Street holding 1,224 homes, with 35 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on 158 Street have injured 52 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 158 Street ranks 67 on housing and 33 on traffic safety. That 33 on traffic safety puts 158 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 54 and infrastructure at 36. Against every street in the city, 158 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 32 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 158 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 158 Street is cleanliness, at 86.
4% of the 1,224 homes recorded on 158 Street are rent-stabilized, 49 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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158 Street runs through East Flushing, Murray Hill and Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, 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).