164 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 164 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 164 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and tree cover (70). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 164 Avenue, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on 164 Avenue holds 58 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Behind it sits abandoned vehicle, with 10 reports. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 164 Avenue carries roughly 43 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 164 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 112 residential buildings and 136 homes on 164 Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 86 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 14. A 14 on infrastructure places 164 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 56 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 36. Transit ranks 12 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 164 Avenue, at 70. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 164 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Of the 136 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.
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164 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).