162 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 162 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 162 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (35) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 162 Street name residential noise than any other category, 238 of them, and cleanliness ranks 35 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 162 Street holds 1,156 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. Illegal parking follows with 204 reports, and blocked driveway with 164. Reports on 162 Street span 89 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 162 Street carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 47 Class C violations on 162 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 162 Street is bed bugs, at 58 violations. Pests accounts for 43 more, and paint and lead for 20. 558 residential buildings on 162 Street hold the 2,057 homes on file, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
NYPD records 79 people injured in crashes on 162 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 76, with quietness at 64. 162 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 69 and parking at 66. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 162 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
The housing file puts 13% of the 2,057 homes on 162 Street in rent stabilization, 213 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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162 Street runs through Pomonok, Murray Hill and East Flushing, 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).