160 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 160 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 160 Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and tree cover (67). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 160 Avenue, with 18 reports. Across every category, 69 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits abandoned vehicle, with 12 reports. Reports on 160 Avenue span 27 distinct 311 categories. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on 160 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 160 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 115 residential buildings on 160 Avenue holding 136 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, 160 Avenue ranks 51 on housing and 42 on infrastructure. That 42 on infrastructure puts 160 Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 46 and quietness at 44. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 40. 160 Avenue ranks 67 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where 160 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 136 on 160 Avenue.
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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160 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).