169 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 169 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 169 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 169 Street, with 171 reports. Across every category, 957 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (153 reports) and residential noise (122). In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on 169 Street. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on 169 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 42 Class C violations on 169 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 169 Street, 83 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 43 violations, then bed bugs at 36. City housing records put 1,703 homes in 957 residential buildings on 169 Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 169 Street have injured 52 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 169 Street ranks 61 on quietness and 36 on parking. 169 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 51 and traffic safety at 48 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. 169 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 169 Street is cleanliness, at 86.
The housing file puts 10% of the 1,703 homes on 169 Street in rent stabilization, 178 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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169 Street runs through Murray Hill, Pomonok and South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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