170 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 170 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 170 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and tree cover (99). Transit (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 170 Street, with 193 reports. Across every category, 664 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 90 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 77. Reports on 170 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 35 reports for every 100 homes on 170 Street.
HPD has cited 42 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 170 Street is pests, at 76 violations. Paint and lead follows at 64 violations, then plumbing at 34. City housing records put 1,893 homes in 785 residential buildings on 170 Street, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 79 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 170 Street ranks 81 on cleanliness and 35 on traffic safety. That 35 on traffic safety puts 170 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 60 and infrastructure at 37. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 14, 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. 170 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 1,893 homes on file, 188 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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170 Street runs through Murray Hill, Pomonok and Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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