164 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 164 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 164 Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and tree cover (99). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 164 Street name drug activity than any other category, 5,342 of them. The whole 311 file on 164 Street holds 6,447 reports, and drug activity is 83% of it. Illegal parking follows with 662 reports, and vehicle noise with 622. Reports on 164 Street span 89 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 316 reports for every 100 homes on 164 Street.
The HPD file on 164 Street carries 103 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 164 Street, 134 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (93 violations) and paint and lead (53). 785 residential buildings on 164 Street hold the 2,041 homes on file, 81 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
NYPD records 308 people injured in crashes on 164 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 164 Street ranks 42 on housing and 6 on traffic safety. A 6 on traffic safety places 164 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 28 and parking at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 24. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 164 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
20% of the 2,041 homes recorded on 164 Street are rent-stabilized, 413 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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164 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).