163 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does 163 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 45, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts 163 Road in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (77) and transit (40). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

In all, 8 distinct 311 categories are represented on 163 Road.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 163 Road. PLUTO counts 39 residential buildings and 43 homes on 163 Road, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Among quiet residential streets, 163 Road ranks 74 on infrastructure and 18 on quietness. That 18 on quietness puts 163 Road in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 66 and housing at 27. Against every street in the city, 163 Road ranks 12 on food nearby and 0 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 163 Road, at 40. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 163 Road is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 163 Road is parking, at 77.

Of the 43 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

163 Road 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).

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