163 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 163 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 163 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and tree cover (95). Housing (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Unsanitary condition is the most-filed complaint on 163 Street, with 162 reports. Across every category, 765 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name unsanitary condition. After that the file runs to illegal parking (129 reports) and residential noise (96). In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on 163 Street. The 311 file works out to about 74 reports for every 100 homes on 163 Street.
163 Street carries 105 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 91 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (73 violations) and bed bugs (40). 497 residential buildings on 163 Street hold the 1,040 homes on file, 57 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 163 Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 163 Street ranks 61 on quietness and 39 on infrastructure. A 39 on infrastructure places 163 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 53 and traffic safety at 47 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 163 Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 163 Street is cleanliness, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 1,040 homes on file, 138 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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163 Street runs through Murray Hill, Bay Terrace 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).