16 Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 16 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 16 Drive in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and food nearby (27). Tree cover (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
The HPD file on 16 Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 37 homes in 18 residential buildings on 16 Drive, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 16 Drive holds about 2.1 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on 16 Drive have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 76 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 41. That 41 on parking puts 16 Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 64 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 49. Transit ranks 17 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 16 Drive, at 27. 16 Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where 16 Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
None of the 37 homes on file 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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16 Drive runs through Whitestone, 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).