171 Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 171 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 171 Place in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (50). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 171 Place, with 24 reports, and parking ranks 14 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 133 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (24 reports) and residential noise (15). In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on 171 Place. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 171 Place, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 171 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 171 Place is pests, at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 123 residential buildings and 172 homes on 171 Place, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on 171 Place since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 44 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 19. 171 Place sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 33 and traffic safety at 23 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, 171 Place ranks 45 on food nearby and 36 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 50. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 171 Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 171 Place is cleanliness, at 94.
None of the 172 homes on file 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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171 Place runs through South Jamaica, East Flushing and St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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