16 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 16 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 16 Road in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (62). Transit (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 16 Road, with 73 reports. Across every category, 94 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 78% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 21 reports, then building and use at 19. Reports on 16 Road span 31 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 16 Road carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 16 Road. 106 residential buildings on 16 Road hold the 163 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among quiet residential streets, 16 Road ranks 64 on housing and 21 on quietness. 16 Road sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 54 on the same scale, with parking at 24. Against every street in the city, 16 Road ranks 51 on food nearby and 15 on transit. 16 Road ranks 62 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Of the 163 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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16 Road runs through Whitestone and Bay Terrace, 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).