159 Road, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does 159 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 88, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 159 Road in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and transit (87). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 159 Road, with 25 reports. The file runs across 9 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 159 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on 159 Road holding 23 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
Since 2021, reported crashes on 159 Road have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 96 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 56. That 56 on parking puts 159 Road in the stronger half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 92 and housing at 71 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, 159 Road ranks 35 on food nearby and 0 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
About 36% of the 23 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 8 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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159 Road 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).