159 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 159 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 159 Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (71). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 159 Avenue, with 175 reports, and parking ranks 5 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on 159 Avenue holds 223 reports, and illegal parking is 78% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 20 reports, and blocked driveway with 12. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on 159 Avenue. About 169 reports per 100 homes sit on 159 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 159 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 107 residential buildings on 159 Avenue hold the 132 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, 159 Avenue ranks 37 on cleanliness and 6 on traffic safety. A 6 on traffic safety places 159 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 23 and quietness at 15 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 38 and food nearby 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 159 Avenue ranks 71 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 159 Avenue is housing, at 99.
Of the 132 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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159 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).