165 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does 165 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 165 Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (73) and tree cover (67). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 165 Avenue, with 19 reports. Across every category, 47 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 12 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 10. The file runs across 31 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 42 homes on file, that is about 112 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 165 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 33 residential buildings on 165 Avenue hold the 42 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 21 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 6. 165 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 20 on the same scale, with parking at 8. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 165 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where 165 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 73.
Of the 42 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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165 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).