166 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 166 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 166 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 166 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 280 of them. Across every category, 842 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 101 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 80. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on 166 Street. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on 166 Street.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on 166 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 166 Street is pests, at 43 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (27 violations) and doors (12). PLUTO counts 879 residential buildings and 1,582 homes on 166 Street, with 66 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 53 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 77, with parking at 29. 166 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 71 and traffic safety at 38. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 166 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 166 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 1,582 homes on file, 30 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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166 Street runs through Murray Hill, Pomonok and Bay Terrace, 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).