160 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 160 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 160 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (69) and tree cover (100). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 160 Street, with 850 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among numbered streets. Across every category, 2,086 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to traffic (456 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (276). In all, 87 distinct 311 categories are represented on 160 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 160 Street carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 160 Street carries 78 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 160 Street is pests, at 97 violations. Heat and hot water accounts for 51 more, and doors for 42. 910 residential buildings on 160 Street hold the 3,594 homes on file, 63 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 160 Street holds about 3.9 homes.
Reported crashes on 160 Street have injured 167 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 56 among numbered streets and parking ranks 29. That 29 on parking puts 160 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 37 and traffic safety at 31 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 160 Street, at 100. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 160 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where 160 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 69.
About 9% of the 3,594 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 315 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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160 Street runs through Whitestone, Pomonok and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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