161 Avenue, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 161 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.

Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 161 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (86) and tree cover (58); infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

Sewer is the most-filed complaint on 161 Avenue, with 12 reports. On the other side, housing ranks 86 among smaller avenues. None of the 73 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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