168 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 168 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 168 Place in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (88) and transit (82). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 168 Place, with 75 reports. Across every category, 185 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (19 reports) and dirty condition (11). In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on 168 Place. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on 168 Place, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on 168 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 168 Place, 17 violations of it. The housing file lists 157 residential buildings on 168 Place holding 267 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 168 Place have injured 16 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 73, with parking at 18. That 18 on parking puts 168 Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 37 and infrastructure at 34. Food nearby ranks 74 and tree cover 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. 168 Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Of the 267 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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168 Place runs through Jamaica Hills, Jamaica and South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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