165 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 165 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 165 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and tree cover (98). Housing (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 165 Street, with 169 reports. Across every category, 919 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (166 reports) and blocked driveway (123). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on 165 Street. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on 165 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 79 Class C violations on 165 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 165 Street, 107 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (63 violations) and doors (44). City housing records put 1,618 homes in 723 residential buildings on 165 Street, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 165 Street ranks 55 on quietness and 42 on parking. A 42 on parking places 165 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 45 and traffic safety at 42. Against every street in the city, 165 Street ranks 71 on food nearby and 45 on transit. 165 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 165 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 77.
26% of the 1,618 homes recorded on 165 Street are rent-stabilized, 414 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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165 Street runs through Pomonok, Murray Hill and Baisley Park, 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).