161 Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 161 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 161 Place in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (58) and food nearby (53). Street crime (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on 161 Place span 5 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on 161 Place holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 30 homes in 17 residential buildings on 161 Place, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 47, with parking at 19. A 19 on parking places 161 Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 43 and traffic safety at 21. The citywide frame puts transit at 27 and tree cover at 19. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 161 Place is quietness, at 58.
Of the 30 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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161 Place runs through Baisley Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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