163 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 163 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 163 Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (89) and food nearby (69). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on 163 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 83 homes in 72 residential buildings on 163 Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 163 Avenue have injured 14 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 78, with infrastructure at 14. That 14 on infrastructure puts 163 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 74 on the same scale, with quietness at 40. Tree cover ranks 66 and transit 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 163 Avenue, at 69. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
None of the 83 homes on file 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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163 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).