168 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 168 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 168 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (67) and tree cover (99). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 168 Street. 152 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 123 of them. Across every category, 864 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 112 reports, and residential noise with 98. Reports on 168 Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on 168 Street.
168 Street carries 109 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 72 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 53 violations, then doors at 38. PLUTO counts 874 residential buildings and 1,617 homes on 168 Street, with 35 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 65 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 22. 168 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 62 and housing at 35 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 168 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 34 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 168 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 168 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 67.
About 17% of the 1,617 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 271 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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168 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).