162 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does 162 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 162 Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (65) and tree cover (63). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on 162 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 50 reports for every 100 homes on 162 Avenue.
The HPD file on 162 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 48 residential buildings on 162 Avenue hold the 60 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 63 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 11. An 11 on infrastructure places 162 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 54 on the same scale, with parking at 31. Transit ranks 23 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 162 Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 162 Avenue is cleanliness, at 65.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 60 on 162 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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162 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).